ANCW10001 Lecture Notes - Group Selection, Frequency-Dependent Selection, Sexual Selection
21 Jan 2017
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These general purpose mechanisms include the abilities to reason, learn, imitate, calculate means-ends relationships, compute similarity, form concepts, and remember things presentation and experimental manipulability purpose processing mechanisms: There are at least two major problems with the assumption of general- Cognitive psychologists tend to select stimuli on the basis of ease of. What constitutes a successful adaptive solution differs from i. ii. domain to domain. Information processing devices are designed to solve problems. Uncertainty: errors and biases to which humans are predisposed, base-rate fallacy: people tend to ignore base-rate information when presented with compelling in dividing information. Chomsky and gould acknowledge that the growth of the human brain. Language is to the large human brain as heat is to the reading lamp - A more recent of this view suggests that human language may have been: steven pinker proposes that language is an adaptation par excellence - product by natural selection for communication of information.
