Evolutionary Developmental Psychology and Evolution

Question 1

Evolutionary developmental psychology

Answer 1

Studies the interaction between genes and environment in a child’s development.

Question 2

Darwin’s theory

Answer 2

Through natural selection, it helps understand how genes and the environment interact.

Question 3

Evolution

Answer 3

Gradual changes in an organisms’s physical structure over generations

Question 4

Darwin’s concept

Answer 4

'’survival of the fittest’’ refers to an individual’s ‘‘fit’’ to the environment

Question 5

Succesful characteristics are naturally selected and passed on to their offspring

Answer 5

Less desirable genes gradually fade from the species