Week 19- Heritability + Evolutionary Psychology

Question 0

Denise heritability

Answer 0

A Lunt if variability in a given trait in a given population at a given time due to genetic factors

Question 1

What is evolutionary psychology?

Answer 1

It is concerned with the evolutionary underpinnings of behaviour- understanding the adaptive significance and utility of behaviours exhibited by modern humans.

Question 2

What is the OGOD hypothesis

Answer 2

One gene one disorder: theorizes that one gene is responsible for one disorder, of a single specific gene is the casual agent in a specific disorder.
(Not successful in area of mental disorders)

Question 3

What is evolutionary fitness?

Answer 3

The probability that the line of decent from an individual with a specific trait will not die out.

Question 4

Define Human Nature

Answer 4

Range of human behaviours that differentiate man kind from other species, made up of adaptations, which are all behavioural characteristics that are the product if natural selection I’m ancestral environments

Question 5

_________ psychology is concerned with the environmental variance component, that is, the prenatal and post natal environment influences affecting individuals during their lifetimes

Answer 5

Developmental psych

Question 6

___________ psychology is concerned with the ensign of human nature, all human behavioural characteristics that are the product of natural selection in ancestral environments

Answer 6

Evolutionary psych

Question 7

_________ ______ is concerned with the partition of individual differences into genetic and environmental variance components.

Answer 7

Behavioural genetics

Question 8

What is genetic load?

Answer 8

The reduction in overall evolutionary fitness for a population compared to what the population would have if all individuals had the most favoured genotype.

Question 9

One misunderstanding about evolution is _____ ________

Answer 9

Naturalistic fallacy

Question 10

What is naturalistic fallacy

Answer 10

Determination of what should be based on what is natural; whatever is natural cannot be wrong and we must accept things as they are.
Beliefs that characteristics produced by evolution are either natural or good or intact urial and morally bad rather than amorallly selectionist.

Question 11

What is the belief that natural selection is the fundamental factor in evolution ?

Answer 11

Selectionist.

Question 12

What is deterministic fallacy?

Answer 12

The mistake belief that and organism evolves, that evolutionist termites by genes rather than an interaction of genes and environment.

Question 13

What is the parental investment theory?

Answer 13

The energy, time, resources, and opportunity cost associated with producing offspring.

Question 14

What is epigamy?

Answer 14

A form of sexual selection based on the alteration of appearance in some way that provides greater attraction

Question 15

What is inclusive fitness

Answer 15

Reproductive success of those who share common genes.

Question 16

What is nepotistic?

Answer 16

Tendency to favour relative over non relatives regardless of circumstances.

Question 17

Define reciprocal altruism

Answer 17

Altruism in which people behave altruistically toward one another because they are confident that such acts will be reciprocated toward either them or their kin.

Question 18

Paul Ekman presents evidence that there are six basic human emotions, what are they?

Answer 18

Surprise
Happiness
Anger
Fear 
Disgust
Sadness