[PSYCH 3F03] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (80 pages long)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3F03
• Professor: Laura Finsten

Document Summary

Week 1 [history of evolution & human behaviour: gregory, t. r. (2009). Recommended format for review articles: a simple and concise summary: cosmides & tooby evolutionary psychology: a primer. http://www. cep. ucsb. edu/primer. html. Goal of research in evolutionary psychology is to discover and understand the design of the human mind. Evolutionary psychology uses knowledge and principles from evolutionary biology to research the structure of the human mind. The mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors: daly, m. , & wilson, m. i. (1999). Week 2 [modern evolutionary theory: charlesworth, b. , & charlesworth, d. (2009). Genetics, 183 (3), 757-766: bamshad, m. , & wooding, s. p. (2003). Signatures of natural selection in the human genome. Nature reviews genetics, 4(2), 99-111: mayr, e. (1997). Week 3 [sexual selection: trivers, r. (1972). Available via the ebook: trivers, r: (2002).