PSYCH 3F03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Political Correctness, Twin, Behavioural Genetics
12 Sep 2016
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Evolutionary psychology: a primer by leda cosmides & john tooby. Evolutionary psychology is an approach, a way of thinking about psychology where the goal is to discover and understand the design of the human mind. Debauching the mind: evolutionary psychology"s past and present. The book principles of psychology is one of the founding works of experimental psychology (james, 1890) In principles william james talked a lot of instincts : refers to specialized neural circuits that are common to every member of a species and are the product of that species" evolutionary history. Such circuits constitute (in our own species) what one can think of as human nature . Common to think that other animals are ruled by instinct whereas humans have lost their instincts and are ruled by reason : reason why we are much more flexibly intelligent than other animals.
