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Sexual selection

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Selection of mate based on their desirable features

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Charles Darwin

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Natural selection-evolutionary theory

Favourable to adaptions to features of environment

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William James

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Published first psych textbook
Functualism
Survival of fittest

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Genetic determinism

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Genes not environment contribute to behaviours exhibited

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Environmental determism

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Environment not genes determines behaviour

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Tabula rasa

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John Locke

Theory that we are born with a blank slate and that our knowledge is based on our experiences and sensory.

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Ethology

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Study of animals to understand a behavioural processes

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Imprinting

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Primitive form of learning where baby aminals form attachment to first moving object they see

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Altruism

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Pro social behaviours a person carries without considering their safety or interests

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Gregor mendal

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1866

First systematic research exploring relationship of parents and child

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Genotype

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Genetics inherited

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Phenotype

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Observable characteristics of an organism resulting from interactions between genotype and the environment

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Psychology

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The scientific study of the behaviour of individuals and their mental processes

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