PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mary Ainsworth, Optimal Design, Pleistocene
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Proximal determinates or accounts of human nature and individual differences: recent contextual or developmental factors that may play a role in how we come to acquire the attributes that we have. Distal determinants: factors that have their origins in the far past and far in a way proceed our generation. Part i: the structure of evolutionary theory: the evolutionary process, variation: people differ in their design characteristics; we are different from each other physically and psychologically. Inheritance: some of the differences between us are heritable. We have the ability to pass our design characteristics to our offspring. Not all design characteristics are inherited: selection: the observation that not only do we differ in our design, but our design can have an impact on reproductively successful we are. The properties of our design can have effects on our rates of reproduction.
