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What is Biological What is Biological Psychology?Psychology?
The Study of the Physiological, The Study of the Physiological, Evolutionary, & Developmental Evolutionary, & Developmental Mechanisims of Behavior and Mechanisims of Behavior and ExperienceExperienceMost of the study is devoted to the brain & how it functions
Explanations for Behavior
Physiological ExplanationsPhysiological ExplanationsBehavior is related to the activity of the brain & other organsBehavior is related to the activity of the brain & other organs
Ontogenetic ExplanationsOntogenetic ExplanationsDescribes the development of a structure or a behaviorDescribes the development of a structure or a behavior
Evolutionary ExplanationsEvolutionary ExplanationsLooks at a structure or behavior in terms of evolutionary historyLooks at a structure or behavior in terms of evolutionary history
Functional ExplanationsFunctional ExplanationsDescribes why a structure or behavior evolved as it didDescribes why a structure or behavior evolved as it did
The Brain & Conscious Experience
The Mind/Body or Mind/Brain ProblemWhat is the relationship between the Mind & the Brain?What are the ways the Mind/Body Problem has been conceived?
DualismThe Mind & Body are different kinds of substances existing independently & interacting
Monism3 categories of Monism
The Problem of ConsciousnessThe Easy Problem & the Hard Problem
The Genetics of The Genetics of BehaviorBehavior
Gregor MendelGregor MendelThe Father of GeneticsThe Father of Genetics
Construction of the Construction of the GeneGeneChromosomes, DNA & RNAChromosomes, DNA & RNAHomozygous & HeterozygousHomozygous & Heterozygous
Dominant& Dominant& RecessiveRecessiveMaleness & FemalenessMaleness & FemalenessSex-limited GenesSex-limited Genes
Genotype & Genotype & PhenotypePhenotypeHeritabilityHeritabilityVariance of a CharacteristicVariance of a Characteristic
Evolution & BehaviorEvolution & BehaviorEvolutionEvolutionChange & frequencies of Change & frequencies of changechange
Artificial SelectionArtificial SelectionMisconceptions in evolutionMisconceptions in evolution
Evolutionary Evolutionary PsychologyPsychologyRelationship between social Relationship between social behavior & evolutionbehavior & evolution
AltruismAltruismProsocial behaviorProsocial behaviorReciprocal altruism & kin Reciprocal altruism & kin selectionselection