PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cognitive Bias, False Alarm, Orbital Inclination

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 358
• Professor: M A R K S C H A L L E R

Document Summary

Human being takes forever to mature enough to mate. Reproductive fitness enhance if offspring survival and reproduce. Natural selection favour strong mechanism in parents that facilitate reproductive success and offspring survival rate. Engage in behaviour to facilitate protection from harm and nurturing. Interpret perceptual stimulus into something that requires care. Putting them in the category that require care. Trigger affective/cognitive response that facilitate protection and nurturance for the . As rewarding and want to spend time with thing. Potential to make correct response and erroneous response reality/judgment. Miss + false alarm are equally erroneous. But not equally costly in fitness consequence. Cognitive bias to respond to thing that might possibly be my kids because they have superficial cues that are similar to my offspring. Associated with our offspring and distinguish from things that don"t. Mechanism in parents and all normally developing human beings. Trade off between the effort of mating and of parenting.