Evolutionary Mismatch: Evol Psych

Question 1

What is evolutionary mismatch?

Answer 1

Adaptive lag that occurs that if enviroments that existed when a mechanism evovled changes more rapidly than time required by natural selection to act upon the mechanism in response to the change

Question 2

What is evolutionary mismatch theory?

Answer 2

Natural selection shaped evolved psych mechanism to process particular inputs to produce adaptive outputs in the form of thoughts, feelings, and behaviour that solve the adaptive problem cued by inputs -> due to adaptive lags, evovled psych mechanims face substainially different inputs or drastically different consequence of the output

Question 3

What are the types of evolutionary mismatch?

Answer 3

Forced - occurs when natural or human-induced enviromental changes are imposed upon organisms

Hijacked - occurs when novel stimuli within natural or human-induced enviroments become favoured over the inputs the evolved psychological mechanisms are desinged to process

Question 4

How do we identify evolutionary mistmatch?

Answer 4

1. Identify problems of modern living
2. Identify the mismatched mechanism
3. Identify the departure from EEA
4. Provide empirical evidence
5. Propose mismatch-informed solution

Question 5

What kind of different inputs are caused by adaptive lags?

Answer 5

Change in input intensity, missing input, input replaced by novel or fake cues with similar attributes