PSYC 2240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ontogeny, Reciprocal Altruism, Pineal Gland
13 Dec 2012
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Biological psyc is the study of psychological, evolutionary and development mechanisms of behaviour and experience. Bp is a way to understand behaviour in terms of how it evolved and how the functioning of the brain and other organs control behaviour. Comsology: the branch of physics that asks why the universe exists at all. 2 types of cells: neurons: convey msgs to one another and to muscles and glands. ( large in size,fn, and shape, glia: smaller than the neurons and have many functions but do convey info over great distances. Biological explanations of behaviour raise the mind-body" or mind-brain" problem. Dualism: the belief that mind and body are different kinds of substance that exist independently. He proposed that mind and brain interact at a single point in space, which he suggested was the pineal gland. Biological explanations of behaviour do not necessarily assume that the individual understands the purpose or function of the behaviour.
