PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Timothy Miller, Prefrontal Cortex, Ovulation
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Plan for today: evolutionary psychology, cultural differences, gender differences, majority of the people also pick this, we pick this because they have a better chance of pro-creating, suggests that we are still focusing on procreating the species. I would pick the 5 year old over the 1 year old. I would bring the 20 year old over the 20 year old. Evolution of social anxiety: fear of social or performance situations where one believes there is potential to be judged or evaluated badly by others, there is an ancient fear of ostracism and getting kicked out of the tribe. 1: social anxiety is an ancestral fear of social isolation (hunter/gatherer tribes, because social isolation led to loss of life, serious life and death consequences of being shunned. It contributes to our ability to procreate, during the rem stage blood goes to our genitals (men get erection, women"s clitoris is engorged)
