comparative psychology

Examples of comparative psychology in the following topics:

• Introduction to Animal Behavior

  • Animal behavior has been studied for decades, by biologists in the science of ethology, by psychologists in the science of comparative psychology, and by scientists of many disciplines in the study of neurobiology.
  • Comparative psychology is an extension of work done in human and behavioral psychology.
  • One cannot study behavioral biology without touching on both comparative psychology and ethology.

• Conditioned Behavior

  • Although it is thought by some scientists that the unconditioned and conditioned responses are identical, Pavlov discovered that the saliva in the conditioned dogs had characteristic differences when compared to the unconditioned dog.
  • Classical conditioning is a major tenet of behaviorism, a branch of psychological philosophy that proposes that all actions, thoughts, and emotions of living things are behaviors that can be treated by behavior modification and changes in the environment.

• Scientific Reasoning

  • This is because it is relatively easy to apply the scientific method to disciplines such as physics and chemistry, but when it comes to disciplines like archaeology, paleoanthropology, psychology, and geology, the scientific method becomes less applicable as it becomes more difficult to repeat experiments.
  • In deductive reason, the pattern of thinking moves in the opposite direction as compared to inductive reasoning.

• Neurodegenerative Disorders

  • Patients with Parkinson's disease can also exhibit psychological symptoms, such as dementia or emotional problems.
  • Compared to a normal brain (left), the brain from a patient with Alzheimer's disease (right) shows a dramatic neurodegeneration, particularly within the ventricles and hippocampus.

• Comparing Meiosis and Mitosis

• Male Hormones

  • Puberty is a period of several years in which rapid physical growth and psychological changes occur, culminating in sexual maturity.

• Class Cubozoa and Class Hydrozoa

  • M. kingi is one of two species of jellies known to cause Irukandji syndrome, a condition characterized by excruciating muscle pain, vomiting, increased heart rate, and psychological symptoms.

• Meristems

  • In that sense, the meristematic cells are frequently compared to the stem cells in animals, which have an analogous behavior and function.
  • They are very small compared to the cylinder-shaped lateral meristems, and are composed of several layers, which varies according to plant type.

• Dead Space: V/Q Mismatch

  • The pulmonary circulation pressure is very low compared to that of the systemic circulation; it is also independent of cardiac output.
  • Compare and contrast anatomical and physiological dead space and their role in V/Q mismatch

• The Fossil Record as Evidence for Evolution

  • Fossils, along with the comparative anatomy of present-day organisms, constitute the morphological, or anatomical, record.
  • By comparing the anatomies of both modern and extinct species, paleontologists can infer the lineages of those species.