PSYCH 1XX3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Lobotomy, Capgras Delusion, Electroconvulsive Therapy
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Face discrimination: at 1 month of age, babies can discriminate between spatial orientation, at 2 months, they can discriminate different face orientations, face detection is thought to be innate (needs knowledge of shape discrimination, facial expressions, biological motion) Goal of reproductive fitness: to pass on more copies of your genes to the next generation. Outcome variance can drive different solutions to the same problems (low variance = higher frequency) Key assumptions: behaviour = psychological mechanisms + input, evolved psychological mechanisms are coded in the brain, evolved psychological mechanisms can be described as information processing devices to solve adaptive problems. Most women have children (low variance) while it varies greatly for men (high variance) Women are more likely to have intercourse with so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e the(cid:455)"(cid:448)e k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) for a lo(cid:374)g period of ti(cid:373)e, as opposed to (cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:449)ho are (cid:373)ore likel(cid:455) to (cid:272)hoose so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e the(cid:455)"(cid:448)e k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) for less ti(cid:373)e.
