PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tabula Rasa, Parental Investment, External Validity

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Michele Moscicki

Document Summary

Skunk-spray even if it is a false alarm. Pretty peacock-arouses disgust in darwin = not survival=help with mating=help in reproduction=transfer of genes. Any investment by the parent in an individual offspring that increases the offspring"s chances or surviving and hence reproducing at the cost of the parent"s ability or invest in (or produce) other offspring. The sex that invests more in offspring should be more choosy and discriminating about who they mate with. The sex that invests less in offspring should compete more vigorously for access to valuable high-members of the opposite sex. Parental investment is what drives sexual selection, not just biological sex (about the act not about the outcome) Evolutionary psychologist-mind is not a blank slate. Mind has propensities waiting to be elicited by environment. Female prefer social status more than men. 3. 5 yrs older, age is associated with financial prospects, social status, etc.