PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Falsifiability, Natural Selection, Determinism
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Evolutionary psychology an approach to studying psychological process by understanding why they would have emerged through evolution. Some aspects of our cognition are so advantageous for spreading genes that they would be genetically selected for. Natural selection selection of traits that support survival and procreation. Sexual selection selection of traits that promote procreation by advertising a mate as eligible and unique. Evolution is (mostly unobservable) evolution is slow and gradual and not something that can be easily observed in our lifetime. The environment is not static human have significantly changed the environmental pressures that acted on us thousand of years ago. Just-so stories an unverifiable and unfalsifiable narrative explanation for a cultural practice, a biological trait, or behaviour of humans or other animals. Person-situation controversy: the problem of whether people"s personality is enduring across situations, or if the way people act is highly dependent on the situation.
