Chapter 1- The Major Issues Flashcards
What is the soft problem?
Why is there something rather than nothing
What is the hard problem?
Why is there consciousness?
Biological psychology is
the study of the physiological, evolutionary and developmental mechanisms of behavior and experience
What do neurons do?
Convey messages to eachother, muscles and glands
What is a physiological explanation?
Relates a behavior to the activity
What is an ontogenetic explanation?
Describes how a structure or behavior develops, including the influence of genes, nutrition, experiences and their interactions
What is an evolutionary explanation?
Reconstructs the evolutionary history of a structure or behavior ( how)
What is a functional explanation?
Describes why a structure or behavior evolved as it did
What are genes?
units of hereditary that maintain their structural identity from one generation to another
What are enzymes?
biological catalysts that regulate chemical reactions in the body
What does homozygous mean?
Identical pair of genes on the two choromosomes
What does heterozygous mean?
An unmatched pair
What are sex- linked genes?
genes on the sex chromosomes
What are auto-somal genes?
all other genes
What are sex-limited genes?
present in both sexes, but mainly active only in one sex
