PSYC 3480 Lecture 6: evolutionary-psych-1
1 Nov 2017
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Evolutionary psychology: the new science of the mind. Chapter 1: the scientific movements leading to evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology: its goal is to understand the human mind/brain mechanism. Connects various other disciplines such as brain imaging; learning and memory; attention, emotion, and passion; attraction, jealousy, and sex, etc. Evolution before darwin: evolution refers to change over time. Darwin published his monumental work on the origin of species in 1859. Baron cuvier (1769-1832): proposed a theory known as catastrophism species are distinguished periodically by sudden catastrophes and replaced by different ones. Note: the biologists who believed that life forms change over time called themselves. Note: with regard to the puzzle of adaption and how it occurs, darwin took to reading thomas. Malthus" an essay on the principle of population (1798) which stated that organisms exist in far larger numbers than can survive and reproduce.
