PSYC 3420 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Evolutionary Psychology
5 Feb 2018
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Chapter one the scientific movements leading to evolutionary psychology: evolutionary psychology focuses on four key questions, 1. Why is the mind designed the way it is that is, what causal processes created, fashioned, or shaped the human mind into its current form: 2. How is the human mind designed what are its mechanisms or component parts, and how are they organized: 3. What are the functions of the components parts and their organized structure that is, what is the mind designed to do: 4. Evolution before darwin: evolutionary refers to change over time, jean baptiste lamarck was one of the first scientists to use the word biologie (study of life, lamarck believed in two major causes of species change, 1. A natural tendency for each species to progress toward a higher form: 2.
