PSYC 304 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Phenylalanine, Twin Study, Socioeconomic Status
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Reducing lives in to simplified, exclusive ideas that don"t interfere. Physical matter (behaves according to laws of nature) vs. human mind (soul, self, or spirit) lacks physical substance, cannot be controlled by natural laws. Even the most complex of human cognitions can be affected by damage or stimulation to parts of the brain. Asomatognosia: deficiency in the awareness of parts of one side of their own body, usually goes away within weeks or month. Typically the result of combined right parietal and right medial front lesions. Non-human species possess many psychological processes that are commonly considered a. Chimpanzees and mirrors dyed their eyebrow and they scrutinized it. Changes in genome that are not caused by underlying dna sequence, modifications to the genome that did not involve changing the sequences. Epigenome: alternations to dna + related structures. Modified histones: increase or decrease gene expression.
