PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Want Ads, Ejaculation, Wine Tasting Descriptors

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

There has been a notion that relationship can be described as a social exchange-taking place, measured on the balance of payment. Equal value to what you are giving in the relationship. Sexual exchange sex for success" exchange. Men seek physical attraction within women, looking for beauty. They did offer some sense of security, and well to do. Men tended to seek a women that was younger than them. Women offered beauty and health, looking for commitment, lasting relationships. Scientists today, still look for that pattern, studying dating websites. It has gone weaker, but out of all the patterns, it is the most dominant that we see today. Came from evolutionary theory- having the exchange within our species. Dating rituals: evolution explore this kind of notion. Each of us has a gene pool, that strives to become the future source of our future species. Optimal strategies: what would be the best sexual strategy to pursue: men- sperm (their genetic package)