PSYC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Richard Dawkins, Gene-Centered View Of Evolution, 5 Fingers
13 Feb 2018
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Audio recording started: 12:59 pm thursday, january 25, 2018. Introduction to psychometrics: quick facts, evolution has shaped our brain to take short cuts, what are the odds, use mental heuristic to come to conclusions. Brain places more weight on things its experienced than on what is statistically true: towel usage, compliance message works because of "peer pressure"; our brains are oriented toward this, intuition v scientific method, psychological research design: experimental. Inferential: ppl tend to take decisions on their feelings -- power of psychology. Audio recording started: 1:02 pm tuesday, january 30, 2018: 4 principles of evolution by natural selection, behavioral adaptation, physiological: opposable thumbs, pigmentation, behavioral: fight/flight, migration, how genes affect behavior, songbirds. 5 fingers; located right next to repro genes: natural selection as a foundation for understanding species-typical behaviors, biological preparedness. Teach to high five through their behaviors of battig at things. Sit due to begging: value of cross-species comparisons of species-typical behaviors, wings -- analogous.
