evolutionary psychology

evolutionary psychology

1. darwin vestiges erection of body hair, puts man in his place, study of behaviour

   • environment of evolutionary adaption stoneagers in the fast lane Dunbar

2. mental illness

   • schizophrenia problem cliff edge effect horses
     • GENES BADCOCK AUTISM IMPRINTED BRAIN THEORY
   • stresss response
     • learning
       • habituation birds stop singing
       • con
   • obesity sugar and fat

3. sexual relationships

   • parental investment Trivers
   • celebacy & homosexuality problem
     • crit genetic determinism
   • attractiveness
   • HOMICIDE male sexual jealousy
     • BUSSquestionarie women jealous of men's emotional infidelity men of physical infidelity
   • child abuse 40% more likely in step families
   • BUSS sexual differences based on diff adaptive problems male spatial ability, female linguistic ability

4. alturism inclusive fittness, genes eye view,hamilton's rule, statistics

   • flock behaviour
   • suicide

5. domai specific, modularity - cosmides and toobies swis army knife, no such thing as a general problem

   • language acquisition device - pinker, adaptation to an environment and cultural change, Nim difficulty in learning lang. capable of deductive reasoning
   • social adaptive learning e.g. cheater detection WASON selection task easier if in social context, evidence for domain specificity
     • language not essential to detect cheaters vampire bats
   • face processing FIE, expertise effect

6. criticisms

   • difficult to verify experimentally

7. proximal/ultimate explanations natural selection

8. SINGH WHR