PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cyril Burt, David Wechsler, Orthopedic Surgery
28 Mar 2017
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Jean lamark: the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics: environmental changes during the lifetime of the organism resulted in structural changes in plants and animals. Herbert spencer: applied his view of evolution to everything in the universe including the human mind, applied theory to the spencer-bain principle. Probability of a behaviour occurring in the future is a function of whether it is followed by a pleasurable or harmful event. There probabilities are passed on to offspring: notion of survival or the fittest" to societies (business becoming more perfect, w/ end goal of perfection) social darwinism". Charles darwin: was hired to find facts to support biblical account of creation, book principles of geology made him start to doubt the biblical account, also read thomas malthus" the principles of population, theory of evolution. Overabundance of offspring than can survive in an environment. Struggle results in survival of the fittest which results in natural selection.
