Gender, Genes, Culture Flashcards
The evolutionary process by which heritable traits that best enable organism to survive and produce to a particular environments
Natural Selection
The study of evolution of cognition and behavior using principles of natural selection
Evolutionary Psychology
The ensuring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to next
Culture
The culture animal
Roy Baumeister
A field of research exploring the expressions of genes across different environment
Epigenetics
Standard for accepted and expected behavior
Norms
Culture vary on how much they emphasize the individual self
Individual choices
To someone relatively formal northern culture, a person whose roots are in an expressive Latin Americsn culture
Expressiveness
A socially important behavior that is influence by personality, culture amd other factors
Panctuality
The buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies
Personal space
Cultural similarity
- universal friendship
- universal train dimension
- universal social belief dimension
- universal status norms
- the incest taboo
People everywhere have some common in friendship
Universal friendship
Evaluating others as good or bad appears across almost all cultures and languages
Universal Train Dimension
People varies in cynism, social complexity, reward for application, spiritually and fate control
Universal Social Belief Dimension
Whenever people form status hierarchies
Universal Status Norms
The best known universal norm
The incest taboo
The characteristics whether biological or socially influence by which people define male and female
Gender
Individual men display outlook and behavior and vary from fierce competitiveness to caring nurturance
Independence versus Correctedness
Girl play often in small groups and imitates relationship, boy plays often competitiveness or aggresive
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