PSYC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gamma-Ray Burst, Cambrian Explosion, Viviparity
16 Dec 2016
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Textbook: ray evolutionary psychology presentations: title slide, 3 content slides with. 4 bullets each, pictures, videos, and reference slide genetic bottleneck: something happens and only certain individuals make it through. There is more diversity in one colony of chimps in africa than the entirety of the human race. The individual is the black box meaning the mind is too mysterious to try to study. Let"s stay away from it and try to study behavior (through observation). At birth, everyone is tabula rasa (blank slate). Ethology: the study of behaviors that are common to all individuals in a species. (genetically predetermined. ) learning is idiosyncratic meaning everyone has different learning experiences so behaviors that are the same are most likely genetic. There are infant reflexes:(grasping, rooting, sucking, babbinsky, moro) that are very adaptive. These are vestigial- something that used to be helpful but are no longer.
