Evolutionary Psychology

Question 1

Goal of EP? & The two peeps

Answer 1

Completely naturalistic explanation of human mind, psych approach
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby

Question 2

Standard Social Science Model SSSM

Answer 2

Social sciences are disconnected from evolutionary foundation

Question 3

4 SSSM Assumptions of mind

Answer 3

Mind is a blank slate
Content of mind is socially constructed
Contents of mind are relativistic
One or few general purpose mechanisms that are domain-general

Question 4

Ep Response to SSSM

Answer 4

SSSM view of human mind is radically defective

Question 5

3 EP Assumptions of Mind

Answer 5

Functionally specialized and domain-specific
Organizes way we interpret world
Universal human nature

Question 6

5 Principles of EP Number 1

Answer 6

Brain generates behaviour appropriate for part environment

Question 7

2

Answer 7

Nerual Circuits designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems our ancestors faced

Question 8

3

Answer 8

Most information processing is unconcious

Question 9

4

Answer 9

Different neural circuits are specialized for solving different adaptive problems

Question 10

5

Answer 10

Modern skulls house a stone age mind