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Biological psychology

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Study of the physiological, evolutionary, and developmental mechanisms of behavior and experience.

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Galileo

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16th- 17th century. Created first telescope. Had a church perspective. Thought the universe revolved around us and god. Was the first human to discover Jupiter and her moons. Noted that every night the moons were moving.

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Copernicus

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Heliocentric Model. Idea that the sun is the center of the universe

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What determines what we study at any given time?

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  • State of Technology
    -State of theory
    -Funding priority
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Biological explanations of behavior

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  • Physiological
  • Ontogenetic
  • Evolutionary
  • Functional
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Physiological

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relates a behavior to the activity of the brain and other organs

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Ontogenetic

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The relationship between genes and environment. How do they give us language? How do they interact ?

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Evolutionary

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examines a structure or a behavior in terms of evolutionary history.

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Functional

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Describes why a structure or behavior evolved as it did. (How does language help humans survive in our niche

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Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

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Discovered the idea of mechanism. Understanding living things as machines.

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Dualism

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Mind and body are different kinds of substances that exist independently but somehow interact.

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Alan Turing

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Invents computer. Breaks Down code. Turing Test. The computer is a model of the mind.

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Monism

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There is only one kind of existence.

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Materialism

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Only the physical exists.

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Mentalism

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Only the mind exists

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Identity

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The mind is what the brain does.

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What is consciousness and how is it produced ?

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Hard problem- Can’t be reduced, can’t be studied.
Easy problem- Determining the difference between wakefulness and sleep, or identifying brain mechanisms that enable us to focus our attention.

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Is there a gene specifically for behavior?

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No

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Gregory Mendel (19th century)

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Discovers inheritance occurs through genes.

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Chromosomes

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Strands of genes, normally in pairs.

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Genes

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Units of heredity.

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Alleles

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Alternate forms of same genes.

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Genotype

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Description of gene pairs (AA, Aa)

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Phenotype

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description of how trait coded by genes is realized.

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Behavioral Genetics

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Behavioral genetics is the study of the role of genetic and environmental influences on behaviors.

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What is DNA

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Deoxyribonucleic acid. Twisted ladder with rings made of pairs of amino acids.

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Amino acids

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Adenine, Thymine, Guanine. Cytosine

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RNA

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sits on top of DNA, and copies it.

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Epigenetic’s

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The study of changes in cells or organisms caused by changes in which portions of the genome are read at different times.
- Shapes fell development and function.

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Garlic Capital of the world

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Gilroy California

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Histones

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Protein molecules that bind portions of DNA, making them inaccessible for reading. (transcription)

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Nature vs Nurture?

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Both

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Heritability

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An estimate of how much of the variance in a population characteristics is due to heredity.

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Dizygotic

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Genes 50% the same. Fraternal

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Monozygotic

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Genes are 100% the same. Identical

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Concordance

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If one twin had a trait, what are the chances that their twin had the same trait?

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High Herebility

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Monozygotic has more of a high herebility than dizygotic.

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Low heribility

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Monozygotic and dizygotic have the same chances

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Evolution

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change over generations in the frequencies of various genes in a population.

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Asexual reproduction

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every generation has the same genes. Little innovation.

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Sexual reproduction

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every individual is an experiment. Each individual will have 50% of the genes of each parent. Different 50% for siblings.

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Sources of Genetic Variation

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Mutation and Recombination

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