PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Factor Analysis, Heritability, Army Beta

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Danielle Impey

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Summary: ideas regarding evolutionary principles prior to darwin"s theory. Development of intelligence tests and testing tenets of theory of evolution influence. Theory of inheritance acquired characteristics o o o chance for survival. Herbert spencer, early follower of larmarck later darwin. Environmental changes during lifetime of organisms resulted in structural changes in. These changes would be passed on to the offspring, which in turn enhanced their. Adaptive characteristics acquired inherited by offspring, mechanism species transformed. Applied view of evolution to everything in universe, including human mind + societies. Thru evolution, differentiation occurs and systems become increasingly complex moving toward perfection. Spencer-bain principle: an evolutionary theory applied to selection of behavior o o. Herbert proposed these propensities for various behavioural responses could be passed on to. Behaviour resulting in pleasurable consequences tends to be repeated and behaviour. *cornerstone of thorndike"s connectionism and skinner"s operant behaviour in painful consequences not repeated offspring.