PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Evolutionarily Stable Strategy, Indirection

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Pat Barclay

Document Summary

Introduction to the variety of functions of cooperative behaviour. The prisoner"s dilemma: you and your partner commit a crime and are arrested and imprisoned with no means of communication. The prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to convict either of you on the principle charge. They hope to get you both sentenced to a year in prison or a lesser charge. Simultaneously, the prosecutors offer each of you a bargain. Each prisoner is given the opportunity either to: betray the other by testifying that the other committed a crime (defect), or to remain silent (cooperate with the other). If you knew he would cooperate, you would chose between 1 or 0 years. In this scenario, it would be best to defect a sentence of 0 years. If you knew he would defect, you would choose between 5 and 10 years. In this scenario, it would be best to defect for a sentence of.