PSYCH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Adaptive Behavior, Internment Of Japanese Americans, Heredity
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Intelligence involved the ability to adapt behaviorally to one"s environment. Adaptability: ability of an entity to remodel itself so as to function more effectively than it did before in its environment. Cognitive niche: our species" survival strategy according to tooby & devore, core system reacting to the hammer"s strike. Behavioral response to patella hammer test is the result of a internal response: biological adaption, 1st step towards behavioral flexibility, bc of this system, the activity of an organism ceases to be simply the. Agency: energetic independence, anticipation, and teleology (define the kinds of entities that have anything that can be meaningfully called a mind) In order for an agent to act effectively in its environment, it must respond faster than most things that elicit response (running before snake bites you) Self fulfilling prophecy: we respond to things that have not yet happened.
