PSY290H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens, Selective Breeding
Document Summary
2. 1 thinking about the biology of behavior: from dichotomies to interactions: Zeitgeist: the general intellectual climate of our culture; the way we tend to think of things in mutually exclusive dichotomies: right or wrong, good or bad, etc. Human processes fall into one of two categories: physiological or psychological. Problems with thinking about the biology of behavior in terms of dichotomies. Asomatognosia: lack of awareness of parts of one"s own body, usually involved the left side of the body due to damage to the right parietal lobe. A model of the biology of behavior rests along three factors: the organisms genetic endowment (product of evolution, experience, perception of the current situation. Modern biology began with charles darwin"s on the origin of species in 1859. He was not the first to suggest evolution, but grabbed the most attention. Some behaviors play an obvious role in evolution: Courtship displays: male approaches female and signals his interest, and goes on until copulation ensues.
