Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Parental Investment

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Elizabeth Campbell

Document Summary

Interaction between genes and environment, they for example have an impact on reading ability. Charles darwin & the voyage of the beagle: studied animals, places around the world, but had a few problems: 1 - some believed species didnt change, they were just knocked off by god (catastrophic events) called catastrophism: fossil record showed this to be true. 2 - taxonomic relationship among living things, obvious relationships existed among different organisms (different birds, trees, fish, etc), things can be assigned to natural categories. 3 - adaptations: species have traits that seem to develop special functions, different traits for different jobs ex. beaks, teeth, feathers. Solution: wrote a book in 1859 called on the origin of species by means of natural. Selection explaining species descended with modification from ancestral species, natural. Selection is the mechanism for descent with modification (adaptations to the environment)