Intro to evolutionary psychology 2

Question 1

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

Answer 1

1. Darwinian Anthropology
2. Evolutionary psychology
3. Gene-culture coevolutionary theory

Question 2

What are two Darwinian concepts? (Instincts)

Answer 2

1. Life-preserving instincts
2. Sexual instincts

Question 3

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

Answer 3

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

Question 4

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

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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 _______ ________

Answer 5

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