Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Leonard Berkowitz, David Buss, Trait Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

11:54 pm on 31st homo sapiens in the greater expand of thing, species haven"t been here for a long time. Changing to meet environmental needs: functionalist. Proximal vs. distal causes: proximal: immediate mechanisms (what cause that behavior, distal: evolutionary processes (where did it come from, move further way before) Distal: evolutionary history of species, individual dna, inherited traits, social development, emotional reaction info processing psychologist, phenomenological experience. Given that an adult animal fights now and then, what makes each outburst happen?-proximal question. How has the animal, as it grew up, developed this behavior?- How has the species were observe today acquired the particular behavior systems during evolution?-distal question. Traits not necessarily due to natural selection. Genetic drift founder effect chance (something happened to change a gene pool, was not meant by by environmental pressure: afrikaner population. Other related trait selected: we didn"t select, but it happens anyway. Maybe not have been result of natural selection.