PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Parental Investment, Little Albert Experiment, Sociobiology

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2230
• Professor: Frank Marchese

Document Summary

Thus items 1 and 2 in uence mate selection is more important for female than male: resource accumulation and time investment are qualities that the male should possess in order to impress the the female"s mate selection (p. Summary: overall, motivation seems to be overdetermined; many factors, variable, systems seem to be operative: biology seems to play a prominent role in understanding mate selection, and gene reproduction. Instincts: genetically motivated behaviours that occur when certain conditions are present and require no learning (p. 36 & 37): early instinct theories were popular in late 19th and early 20th centuries. Instinct is an impulse to action" and thus considered motivated. Organisms know the the object will satisfy the need based on past experience with the goal-object. organism. (avoidance) from the object. Physiological re ect, is part of a larger instinctual method of survival. One may be characteristically inclined to ght" while another may be inclined to.