MODULE I
KEY CONCEPTS
1. Typology of biologies based on the level of organization concept
2. Typology of biologies based on the reductionism versus organicism stances
3. Typology of biologies based on the proximate versus ultimate causation concepts
4. Optimality principle and biological fitness
5. Trade-off
6. Coevolution, arms race and conflicts of interest
7. Scala Naturae (evolutionary ladder) versus evolutionary tree
8. Animal model versus model animal
9. Niche construction and interpenetration
10. Modes of inheritance and transmission pathways
11. Predetermined versus probabilistic epigenesis
12. Ethology’s four causes or questions
13. Narrow versus broad conceptions of psychobiology
14. Psychobiological disciplines
15. Empirical-inductive versus hypothetical-deductive methods
16. Experimental versus correlational paradigms
17. Classification of methods in psychobiology