Intro to evolutionary psychology 2 Flashcards

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What are three areas of theory that stem from Darwin’s work?

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  1. Darwinian Anthropology
  2. Evolutionary psychology
  3. Gene-culture coevolutionary theory
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What are two Darwinian concepts? (Instincts)

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  1. Life-preserving instincts
  2. Sexual instincts
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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

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  1. inside, behaviour
  2. behaviourist, behaviour, reflexes
  3. mechanisms, stimuli, responses
  4. general-purpose, capacity
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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

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  1. psychic
  2. Biological, culture
  3. Absent, outside
  4. Social
  5. Shapes, causal
  6. Culture, drives
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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 _______ ________

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  1. characteristics, absent, social
  2. dichotomy
  3. psychological impossibility
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