PSYC 3100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Human Behavioral Ecology, Hemoglobin E, Adaptation
17 Dec 2015
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Mechanism that explains evolutionary change natural selection. Not a law or process but the outcome of any activity where the following conditions are met. Constraints are: variation, heredity (inheritance, differential reproduction (due to competition, genetics, environment, history. Panda has a thumb that is analogous not homologous. Recurrent problems in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness (eea, or the pleistocene) lead to a mind adapted to solve problems in that environment. Components: computationalism (formal operations on representations, nativism (innateness, adaptationism (psychological traits are solutions to, modularity (encapsulation) environmental problems) Humans and other animals behave in ways that maximizes their. Assumption that human behavior is optimal, natural selection will reproductive fitness have favored optimizers. Assumptions: adaptiveness: is our (homo) adaptation, optimality is realized in humans and other animals. Ns is an optimizer: theoretical modeling: one can formulate hypotheses and collect data, fit data, etc based on the assumption of optimality, optimality is a relative thing-trade-offs exist.
