PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phenotypic Plasticity, Extraversion And Introversion, Determinism
18 Sep 2017
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Making copies of itself in an increasingly complicated way. Now language is just a part of our daily life reproductive problems. Thinking that effectiveness = lasting until now and good. Tend to assume some competition between gene-based and environment-based explanations for psychological phenomena. We like simple thing and this explanation is easy. A person"s gene + input from environment. Tend to assume that if some psychological phenome is rooted in genes, then it is unchangeable and inflexible. Build organism build flexibly responsive to environments. The brain is a physical system designed to generate useful behaviour that is. Developmental process appropriate to one"s environmental circumstances. In response to the input, genotype produce observable characteristics, Example that facilitate reproductive success within that kind of environment. It would have been adaptive if genes promoting extraversion were less likely to be expressed. Thus less likely to produce extraverted people in places that are disease-y. Country has been more diseas-y to have less extraverted.
