PSYCH 1XX3 Study Guide - Inclusive Fitness, Kin Selection, Behavioural Genetics
5 Feb 2014
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Adaption: biological traits or characteristics that help an individual survive. Specific functions that make an organism better suited to its environment. Then you can look for processes that are capable of those tasks (relevant adaptations). Scientists categorized as adaptationists use this label to describe how hypotheses about adaptive function guide their investigations. They refer to the adaptive functions of mental activity. The adaptive functions evolved like all other adaptations through natural selection. Adaptations emerge in development as a result of activation of relevant genes in interaction with relevant aspects of the environment. Altruism: behaviour in which the actor incurs a cost to provide a benefit to a. Not altruism: foraging/vigilance in groups because actor gains directly from behaviour. (the. Goose, and bird example are not examples of altruism. ) Behavioural genetics: the study of the genetic underpinnings of behavioral phenotypes such as eating or mating activity, substance abuse, social attitudes, violence, and mental abilities.
