PSYCH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Evolutionary Psychology, Positive Psychology, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform
18 Sep 2020
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Changing demographic of scientists and study participants. Nature: our traits are already set in place at birth. Nurture: out traits develop in response to environment/experience. Differences related to differing genes and environments. The mind is a blank state, written on by experience (john locke) Ways culture shapes behavior, but same underlying processes are. How human are alike b/c of common biology and evolutionary history universal. Finds out that males and females are overwhelmingly similar. Uses scientific methods to explore human flourishing, investigate building of a meaningful life. Focuses on strengths and finding meaning in our lives, not the negative aspects of human problems. Psychological influences: learned fears and other expectations, emotional responses, cognitive processing and perceptual interpretation. All contribute to behavior or mental process! Neuroscience- how the body and brain enables emotion, memories and sensory experience. Evolutionary- how the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of genes. Behavior genetics how our genes and environment influence our individual differences.
