PSY 216 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Fundamental Attribution Error, David Buss, Selective Breeding
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Went to u of texas via a lottery ticket. Wanted to be a scientist of the mind. Believed that men are highly motivated to achieve dominance because that are attractive to women. Originally sociobiology. the scientific study of human thought and behavior from an evolutionary perspective. Assumes that the true origin of your traits reach far back in ancestral times. Caused by an interaction between an ever changing environment and a changing body and brain. Individual members of any species differ from one another. Human adaptations should remain universal and species-typical, meaning there should not be significant differences between individuals. Traits become either more or less common in a species over a long period of time because of survivability. The evolutionary process (1) adaptations: evolved strategies that solve important survival and reproductive problems. Must have a genetic or inherited basis to them. All life forms are confronted with two fundamental problems of adaptation: survival and reproduction.
