PSYC 102 Lecture 11: Social Psychology II
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Our brains grew to absorb changes to these adapt environments environments instead adaptations for very long change , genetic wouldn"t because useful we"re and to the be climatic weren"t adaptations allowed us to flexibly specific evolved to cultural. Our ability narrow path to genetic culture w/ a is what makes runaway us human to transmit culture is our greatest social adaptation learning. Requires : intelligence , theory of mind by low cost cumulative but. Is large groups tools fire cooking language , clothing , shelter medical religion , culture: hands. Evolution terrestrially . larger brains . cwhsoapciag. fi/ggmih9 larger brains ( learning , parental shared investment parenting) brains larger. Mechanisms some ideas are more evocative a thus memorable context based. "d on nxt page to frequency - dependent. Cultural adopt cultural traits based an learning bias : their frequency in imitating is good do of people who population something indicates success.