Chapter one

Question 1

What are the two Hypothesis and two W’s of Evolutionary psychology

Answer 1

p.3

Question 2

What does Buss mean when he says Evolutionary psychology can ‘synthesize’

Answer 2

p.3

Question 3

Pre Darwin Evolution included…

Answer 3

p.3-4

Lamarck

Question 4

What did Lamarck do?

Answer 4

P.4

Question 5

What were the main puzzle pieces to natural selection

Answer 5

p.4-5

Question 6

What are Darwin main points for the argument for evolution

Answer 6

p. 5-6
- Variation
- Inheritance
- Selection

Question 7

What is sexual selection

Answer 7

P. 6-7

-Runaway sexual selection?

Question 8

What are some feature of evolution powered by natural selection

Answer 8

p. 7

Question 9

Any other causes of evolutionary change?

Answer 9

p.7

Question 10

Why was Darwin’s theory criticised

Answer 10

p8-9

Question 11

What is blended inheritance

Answer 11

p 9-10

Question 12

What is particulates inheritance

Answer 12

p9-10

Question 13

What is ethology

Answer 13

p-10-11

Question 14

What are the four whys of behaviour and what fixed action patterns are

Answer 14

p.11

Question 15

What is classic al fitness/inclusive

Answer 15

p-11-13

Question 16

Genes eye thinking

Answer 16

? p.11-13

Question 17

What are the three products of evolution

Answer 17

• Adoption
• By products
• Noise

Question 18

Define adoptions criteria

Answer 18

p 35-38

Question 19

What is the environment of evolutionary adaptedness

Answer 19

p35-38

Question 20

What are the three theories on the origin of species

Answer 20

p34-35

Question 21

Why is Evolutionary theory the best

Answer 21

P. 34-35

Question 22

Describe the cognitive revolution

Answer 22

Lacuna
Incorrect assumptions
domain generality

Question 23

What was Garcia research

Answer 23

p22-27

Question 24

What research suggested behaviourism was a little inadequate with respect to human behaviour?

Answer 24

p22-27

Question 25

What and what did Margaret mead do

Answer 25

p25-26

Question 26

Main points that relate Evolutionary psych and psychology in general

Answer 26

p21-29

Question 27

Frauds class of instincts

Answer 27

Take from notes

Question 28

James and instincts, the behaviourist argument

Answer 28

How it is wrong

Question 29

EP and the cognitive revolution

Answer 29

Toby/commodes

-how were information processing theories similar to the old behaviourism

Question 30

Milestones in human development

Answer 30

p18-21
Know boxes
Box 1.1
OOA vs MRC

Question 31

Adoptions don’t require conscious calculations

Answer 31

They tend to work on an unconscious level

Question 32

Misunderstandings of evolutionary psychology

Answer 32

p16-18

Question 33

Are most adoptions optimally designed, explain

Answer 33

NO

-Malaria

Question 34

Wilson and sociobiology

Answer 34

p15-16

Question 35

Who is Trivers

Answer 35

p15

Question 36

What is reciprocal altruism

Answer 36

p15

Question 37

By far the most influential critics of EP and socio-biology have been leftists, explain

Answer 37

Feminist too

From notes

Question 38

What is the group selection idea

Answer 38

p13-15

Question 39

What is Williams contributions to E theory

Answer 39

p13-15

Question 40

Why do some see group selection as highly suspect as a motor force in evolution

Answer 40

Think of the selfless unsuicidal guy vs the one who porks out

Question 41

What are the conditions that regard a true adaptation stats

Answer 41

-reliability
-efficiency
-economy
p13-15

Question 42

Clarification of adoption

Answer 42

p 13-15