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Biological Psychology
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The study of the physiological evolutionary, and developmental mechanisms of behavior and experience.
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What are the four biological explanations of behavior?
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Physiological ( relates a behavior to an activity of the brain)
Ontogentic (describes how behavior or a structure develops) Evolutionary (Describes how a behavior or structure evolved) Functional (describes WHY a structure or behavior evolved the way it did) |
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What is the Mind-Body problem?
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The idea that either the mind and the body are one thing, or that they are two separate entities.
Monism vs. Dualism |
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Genes
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Units of heredity that maintain their structural identity from one generation to another.
A portion of a chromosome |
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Chromosomes
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Strands of genes, which also comes in pairs. Genes are a portion of a chromosome
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DNA
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deoxyribonucleic acid
Nucleotide based building blocks of life. Contains phosphate group, sugar, and bases |
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Enzymes
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Biological catalyst that regulate chemical reactions in the body.
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Sex-Linked Genes
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The genes located on the sex chromosomes
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Sex-Limited Genes
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present in both sexes, generally on autosomal chromosomes, but active mainly in one sex.
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Evolution
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A change over generations in the frequencies of various genes in a population.
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Fitness
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number of copies of one's genes that endure in later generations.
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Why do we use animal testing?
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-We have similar underlying mechanisms
-Benefits animals -Certain experiments you can't use humans |
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Behavior
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an organisms response to the stimuli.
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Neurons
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Specialized cells of the nervous system, neuronal activity affects/produces behavior.
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Codons
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Sequence of 3 DNA bases which specifies amino acids
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How is a protein synthesized
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DNA-RNA-Amino Acid-Protein
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***What happens when a gene is expressed****
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A protein is synthesized.
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Epigenome
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Genome above the regular one. It tells what the genes to do.
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