PSY BEH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Family Values, Dual Inheritance Theory, Group Selection

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 100
• Professor: Shariff

Document Summary

We excel at social learning (compared to chimps) Someone comes along and figures out the environment (individual learner) to help the. Copying fidelity is not 100% (the game telephone) - the knowledge of the environment. Defer to class social learning (relying on other people"s knowledge) - only works if. Compared to other animals, humans have been amazingly flexible in adapting to radically different habitats. But also do inexplicably maladaptive and or stupid things. This can be explained by dual inheritance theory (inherit genes and culture) Cultural evolution operates through the darwinian principles of variation, selection, and inheritance. Humans have genetically evolved specific adaptations to become a cultural species. Specifically, we have evolved to be acute social learners, with biases, that lead us to attend to and imitate the frequent, the successful, and the prestigious (the old) Things you learn directly from the environment - individual. Things you learn from others, copying what they do, etc.