Chapter 1

Question 0

What is two difference between traditional psychology and EP

Answer 0

Traditional Psychology relies on the SSSM and EP does not

EP looks at psychology as a whole instead of focusing on my subject

Question 1

Evolutionary Psychology

Answer 1

An approach to psychology that takes seriously the idea that our own species is a product of evolution

Question 2

Standard Social Science Model

Answer 2

Set of ideas common in psychology according to which causes of behaviour can be divided between nature and nurture

Question 3

Assumption 1 of SSSM

Answer 3

Blank slate -The human mind is a neutral medium on which expirerencs makes its mark. “Virgin mind”

Question 4

Assumption 2 of SSSM

Answer 4

The Irrelevance of biology

There are no biological constraints on behaviour.

Question 5

Assumption 3 of SSSM

Answer 5

General purpose learning Mechanism

Humans have a few variety of inputs dealt with by one mechanism that responds many different ways

Question 6

Issue with the SSSM- reason 1

Answer 6

The SSSM ignores the fact that development depends on gene-environment interactions

Question 7

Issue with SSSM - reason 2

Answer 7

The SSSM gives a false division between nature and nurture.

Question 8

Issue with SSSM - reason 3

Answer 8

General purpose learning mechanism cannot explain the wide array of known environmental effects.

Question 9

Issue with SSSM - reason 4

Answer 9

The SSSM builds a fake wall between the natural and social sciences

Question 10

Issues with SSSM - reason 5

Answer 10

The SSSM gives no unifying framework for all of psychology

Question 11

What Is your skin color the result of ?

Answer 11

Nature (genes) and nurture (environment)

Question 12

Melanin

Answer 12

Dark pigment in skin

Question 13

Norm of reaction

Answer 13

A graph that plots how a particular trait change because of environmental change

Question 14

Facultative trait

Answer 14

Traits that allow individuals to fit into more then one environment

Question 15

Proximate Questions

Answer 15

How questions

Question 16

Ultimate Questions

Answer 16

Why questions

Question 17

Universal People

Answer 17

Behaviour that is common in every human

Question 18

Genetic Fallacy

Answer 18

The mistaken idea that behaviour is inherited when genes are involved

Question 19

Naturalistic Fallacy

Answer 19

Confusion of “is” with “ought”

Question 20

Genotype

Answer 20

The genetic constitution of an individual organism.

Question 21

Phenotype

Answer 21

The outward appearance of an organism

Question 22

Tinbergens level of explanation

Answer 22

That all possible explanations are right (robin and best building)

Question 23

Why is fixed pattern of response no longer used? 3 reasons

Answer 23

Not entirely fixed
Not entirely innate
Not always triggered by stimuli

Question 24

Example of a fixed action pattern

Answer 24

Yawning

Mating dance in birds

Question 25

Why does our skin darken in the summer and lights in the winter

Answer 25

We produce a lot of melanin when there is a high levels of uv and disassemble the melanin when uv levels drop