PSYC 2410 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 Notes
16 Feb 2012
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The church dominated in the dark ages until the renaissance (1400-1700) when scientists started to observe facts rather than take them as they were dictated. Cartesian dualism was sanctioned by the roman church. Ethology: the study of animal behavior in the wild. Focused on instinctive behaviors: behaviors that occur in all like members of a species even when there seems to have been no opportunity for them to have been learned. Nature of interactions of genes and experience: neurons become active long before they are fully developed, the subsequent development depends greatly on their activity, much of which is triggered by external experience, experience continuously modifies genetic expression. Darwin"s evidence: documentation of the evolution of fossil records through progressively more recent geological layers, described striking similarities among living species common ancestor, pointed out major changes brought about in domestic animals by selective breeding.
