PSYC 3100 Final: Lecture Notes For Final EVO PSYCH.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Pat Barclay

Document Summary

In class quizzes will be a combination of multiple choice and short answer. Will expect you to understand, explain, and predict stuff based on the class lectures and readings. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution . A theory unites the facts and helps them to make sense . Makes sense of disparate facts in nature. Is extraordinarily powerful at predicting new findings. Use of evolutionary theory as the foundation for studying brains and behaviour. Link between the natural sciences and psychology (and ideally with the social sciences as well) Draws from biology, zoology, psychology, anthropology, economics. Cannot look just at people in certain societies, must look at the spectrum of all societies (anthropology) Not a sub-discipline of psychology it s a paradigm for all of psychology. Evolutionary theory unites the old psychological findings and helps predict the new ones. Nothing in psychology or culture makes sense except in the light of evolution.