PSYC20009 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Naturalistic Fallacy, Inclusive Fitness, Evolutionary Psychology
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Evolution via natural selection: evolution: change in inherited characteristics within a population over successive generations, darwinian evolution is via natural selection, premises: Problem of altruism: does evolution tailoring organisms to facilitate their own reproductive success mean they"ll be selfish: need to take a gene"s eye view: selfish genes vs selfish individuals. If a prosocial behaviour happens to increase likelihood that one"s genetic material is passed on to future generations, then such a behaviour will be selected for. Inclusive fitness: hamilton (1964): inclusive fitness as capacity for genetic information to spread in population, direct (classical) fitness: number of offspring. Indirect fitness: via increasing classical fitness of others also sharing one"s genes. Personality & social psychology: value of ep, metatheory: organising framework, function, distal (ultimate) causes, e. g. operant conditioning, fruitful regarding novel hypotheses. In each instance, it is a question of how well ep accounts for data vs other theories. Morality: code of conduct or set of rules pertaining to.
