PSYC 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Meta-Analysis, Cognitive Flexibility, Genghis Khan

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3402
• Professor: Shelley Brown

Document Summary

Evolution 101: darwin - plants, organisms, species evolved gradually over time in response to the environment, coined as natural selection. Reproductive success: how good an organism is at having children and keeping them alive so they procreate and successful adaptation into next gene pool, number of surviving descendants who go on to reproduce. Selection pressures: environmental pressures found in niches that determine whether or not the random mutation gives the organism a reproductive edge. Evolutionary psych: historical accounts, anthropology research, cultural similarity. Monday, january 16, 2017: male: challenges to one"s brawn, protector capability, female: challenges to one"s chastity, fertility, tries explain patterns of criminal offending (homocide, rape, psychopaths, why males are more violent than females, age/crime curve) Explaining male-on-male violence: males reputation largely relies on ability to maintain credible threat of violence, in an ancestral environment failure to maintain toughness results in death.