PSYC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ronald Fisher, Sexual Coercion, Fetus

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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Topic 1: introduction to genetics: explain the differences between nature and nurture, describe the heritability of certain traits, including whether they are polygenic, describe the field of epigenetics. Topic 2: heritability and variability: describe the role of variability in heritability, describe common misunderstandings about evolution. Topic 3: attraction: analyze the adaptive functions of romantic relationships, kin relationships, friendships, and dominance hierarchies, apply parental investment theory, explain how genetics influences attraction. Topic 4: cooperation and competition: explain the sociobiological approach to altruism. Ultimate causes: explanations of behavior at the evolutionary level (what function did this behavior have in promoting survival and fitness?) Proximate factors: the immediate causes and mechanisms of the behavior. Evolutionary psychology: concerned with the evolutionary underpinnings of behavior and understanding their adaptive significance. Heritability/inheritability: the ability to be inherited or passed from generation to generation. Successful genes: ge(cid:374)es that pro(cid:373)oted the orga(cid:374)is(cid:373)"s sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)al i(cid:374) the past (ancestral environment) and as a result, became more common in subsequent generations.