PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Cuckold, Parental Investment, Human Behaviour
7 Feb 2014
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Evolution and human behaviour: sex differences in romance and risk-taking. Heritable variants lead to differential reproductive success there are things you cant see, attention, memory, psychological constructs that can be inherited. If you"re able to hold memory, and remember things easier, you have a better success in reproducing. Reproductive fitness how many offsprings do you have. Your goal is to have as many offsprings as possible because that means there are more of your genes in the gene pool overall. What strategies do you take to ensure this? outcome variance perspective the idea of whatever outcome, there is going to be variability. Most will have a variability outcome thats similar to the low variance risks are involved when taking high variance route. Key assumptions inputs decision rules output: behaviour = psychological mechanism + input, evolved psychological mechanisms are coded in the brain, evolved psychological mechanism can be described as information processing devices, who"s the parents of the baby.
