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Cards In This Set
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Why is there something rather than nothing?
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Philosopher Gottfried Leibniz
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Given this universe composed of matter and energy, why is there such a thing as consciousness?
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Hard Problem
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What is the relationship between mental experience and brain activity?
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Mind-Brain/Body Problem
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One that cannot be reduced to something else.
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Fundamental property
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Study of the physiological, evolutionary, and developmental mechanism of behavior and experience
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Biological psychology
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Relates a behavior to the activity of the brain and other organs
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Physiological explanation
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Describes how a structure or behavior develops, including the influences of genes, nutrition, experiences, and their interactions
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Ontogenetic explanation
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Reconstructs the evolutionary history of a structure or behavior
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Evolutionary explanation
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Describes why a structure or behavior evolves as it did.
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Functional explanation
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Gene spreading by accident
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Gene drift
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An evolutionary explanation states wht evolved from what
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A functional explanation explains why something was advantageous and therefore evolutionary selected.
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Units of heredity that maintain their structural identity from one generation to another; come in pairs
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Genes
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Strands of genes that come in pairs
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Chromosomes
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Double stranded molecule
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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
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Single strand chemical
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Ribonucleic acid (RNA)
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