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Developmental Psychology and Aggression
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- 1What is EDP?Evolutionary Developmental Psychology - is the application of the basic principles of Darwinian evolution, particularly natural selection, to explain contemporary human development
- 2What does EDP involve?the study of the genetic and environmental mechanisms that underlie the universal development of social and cognitive skills
- 3What does EDP assume?that behaviours and cognitions are the product of natural selection pressures operating over the course of evolution
- 4What does EDP focus on?the interaction between genes and the environment
- 5What can EDP help to explain?wide cultural variations in aggressive behaviours
- 6Who was that carried out a cross-cultural study of aggression?Baron & Richardson (1992)
- 7What did they find?very large cultural variations, with very little aggression in some cultures such as the Arapesh in New Guinea
- 8What did Ekman find?people from a variety of cultures could recognise fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, anger and surprise. Even children born blind and deaf will smile and cry with the same facial expressions as 'non-disabled' children - implies similarities between cultures
- 9Who compared sexual jealousy across cultures?Brase (2004)
- 10What did they find?that Brazilian males are the most jealous, compared to the far less jealous Japanese men. A positive correlation was observed between the level of jealousy and fertility rate (high in Brazil, low in Japan) - implies cultural difference/ evolution of culture
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- A level Psychology (3 Biological) Flashcards on Developmental Psychology and Aggression, created by Ella Middlemiss on 05/03/2017.
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