PSYC 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Incest Taboo, Cultural Diversity, Gossip
29 Sep 2016
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Natural selection = process by which heritable traits that best enable organisms to survive and reproduce in particular environments are passed to ensuing generations. Evolutionary psychology = the study of the evolution of cognition and behavior using principles of natural selection. Culture = enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. Norms = standards for accepted and expected behavior. I. e. expressiveness, punctuality, rule-breaking, personal space (buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies) I. e. universal friendship norms, universal trait dimensions, universal social belief dimensions, universal status norms, incest taboo, norms of war. Gender = characteristics, whether biological or socially influenced, by which people define male and female. Other classes may differentiate sex as biological and gender as social. Focus on tasks and connections with large groups. Respond to stress with fight or flight response. Women"s wages in industrial countries average 77% of men"s wages.
