PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sub-Saharan Africa, Biological Determinism, Prostate Cancer
29 May 2016
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Why is college good for you: you can make lots of money. You need food to survive (requires money) Offspring has a better chance of survival. Make social network to keep you alive. Friends = getting laid: boosts your immune system. Why do we have emotions: emotions are adaptations -> fear is selected for bc its how you sense danger. No you can suppress it but initially you will have that emotion. Yes because that is what drives our behavior and our behavior affects our survival: genetic determinism is not a thing. What is an instinct: a stereotypical response pattern to a random environmental stimuli, william james, father of psychology. Outlined ~450 instincts in humans: instincts themselves go against the idea of evolution because you ought to not have any stereotypical response to anything, you ought to choose the best pattern.
