PSYC 2110 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 - Nature and nurture
11 Feb 2012
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David shenk 4 ways to guide students to lasting, long-term success: Monday january 23, 2011: believe in their potential, support but don t smother, pace and persist, embrace failure. evolution as a natural source of ideas regarding dev. inheritance might be shaped by lang and education (change of selection pressures) cause of our divergence from ape ancestors. as language improved, our brains got bigger, made more complex language possible: enabled larger groups; more social opportunities, larger groups are more complex (new selection pressures: society, able to take down bigger prey. change in hips: humans move on 2 legs. our hips changed, but the birth canal didn t: bipedal gait is very efficient but needs our hips, coupled with sweating, bipedalism is a big advantage. humans cannot run fast, but can run really far since we sweat well. size of birth canal is limited by efficiency of bipedal gait (walking)
