Intro to evolutionary psychology 2 Flashcards
What are three areas of theory that stem from Darwin’s work?
- Darwinian Anthropology
- Evolutionary psychology
- Gene-culture coevolutionary theory
What are two Darwinian concepts? (Instincts)
- Life-preserving instincts
- Sexual instincts
Fill in the gaps about the main idea of the following…
1. Radical behaviourism - What happens ____ the head is also ____
2. Operant conditioning - Extended ____ principles to all aspects of ____, not just ____
3. Equipotentiality principle - All ____ of learning are the same, regardless of specific ____ or ____
4. Learning is domain-general - One ____ - ____ learning ____ across all species
- inside, behaviour
- behaviourist, behaviour, reflexes
- mechanisms, stimuli, responses
- general-purpose, capacity
Fill in the gaps about statements of the standard social science model
1. The _____ unity of humankind
2. ______ endowment is irrelevant to the manifestation of _________
3. Adult behaviours are obviously ______ from infants, must be acquired from _______
4. This outside source is the _______ environment
5. The social environment _____ individuals; the _____ arrow is from society to individuals
6. _____ therefore operates on the rudimentary ______ of the un formed infant to produce a cultural being
- psychic
- Biological, culture
- Absent, outside
- Social
- Shapes, causal
- Culture, drives
What are three problems with the standard social science model?
1. Fact many adult ______ are _______ at birth doesn’t implicate the _______ environment as their source
2. Nature/nurture is a false ______
3. A domain-general learning capacity is a _______ ________
- characteristics, absent, social
- dichotomy
- psychological impossibility