PSYCH 3F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nikolaas Tinbergen, Human Behavioral Ecology, Evolutionary Medicine
8 Jul 2017
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1,3 (daly and wilson 1999) human evolutionary psychology and animal behaviour. Evolutionary psychology: but restriction to humans inappropriate. In this particular review, they integrate study of human psychology into darwinian framework as human evolutionary psychology (hep) Psychologists organize their ideas into adaptive functions = adaptationism: especially w. r. t. sensory and perceptual processes evolutionarily informed study of human mental processes. Still debate over to what extent cognitive processes are modularized and domain-specific. Explanations for processes in terms of function also seen in social psychology not clearly evolutionary though: example hypotheses for social behaviour: Defending self-esteem or observe: these are unfortunately often arbitrary. Ecologists and sociobiologists have made greater progress in social psychology and behaviour of non-human animals because they organized ideas into discrete, real-world problem domains: mate value assessment, kin recognition, parental investment allocation. Can apply these to humans to get away from arbitrariness, and things you can(cid:495)t disprove: e. g.
