Biological Psychology Flashcards
Knowledge of Evolution and Biology
Evolutionary Psychology
Functional Unit of Nervous System
Neurons
Branch of Psychology that studies biological foundation of behavior, emotions, and mental processes
Biological Psychology
It is a map of challenging conceptual grounds
Methatheory
It is produced by natural selection
Adaptation
Chemical Messengers that travels between each neuron
Neurotransmitters
Unit of heredity
Genes
Sum of all biological processes by which particular characteristics transimitted from parents to offspring
Heredity
First appears or visibly expressed in the organism
Dominant
Masked and does not show in the organism
Recessive
One to two or more alternative forms of a gene
Allele
The three methatheory assumptions
Natural selection, adaptation, sexual selection
Competition between members of one sex
Intra sexual
A preferential mate choice between opposite sex
Inter sexual
Observable properties of sn organism
Phenotype