PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Blurton, Parental Investment, Paternal Care
18 Nov 2013
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Different contexts of development and how that leads to various parenting strategies Paying attention to regularities in the environment: experience the world and adapt accordingly. What would you have to change to have a baby today: stop schooling (child needs your attention, money to provide and fulfill their needs. Food/clothing: provide time to nurture them. What is culture: transmission of information through social learning mechanisms (imitation, teaching, unique to humans, cumulative culture (innovation on top of innovation) One can continue building on or advancing certain knowledge rather than starting all over. Trusting one another; saves cost of individual learning able to transmit knowledge instead. Hunter-gatherer and foraging societies are ideal for studying eea. Geographical isolation allows them to preserve their culture which closely represents our eea. Native groups are declining at fast rates (ideal for studying) Hadza; children <5 years of age are foraging on their own and preparing their own meals.
