Vanessa Eugine

Communication is the exchange of ideas, opinions, or facts between senders and receivers. It requires that a sender (an individual or group) compose an

A multidisciplinary view of exceptionality (lecture 1, chapter 1) Disorder: a disturbance in normal functioning (mental, physical, or psychological) Di

Method: instead of hearing 8 songs like in tutorial, they heard many more songs (all happy birthday song in french, previous study had professionals wi

Hunter, schellenberg, & shimmack (2008) experiment conducted in tutorial. Some musical characteristics are reliable predictors of happy and sad respond

First experiment: melodies/tunes were familiar and pitch shifted in the same direction (either up or down, condition: one day heard the pitch shifted 2

It is your natural or innate musical ability, which should influence: how you do in music lessons, the likelihood that you"ll be a musician. Criticism:

42 points of short answer (1 4 points) Comprehension or understanding of music requires formation of a mental representation. It"s difficult to form a

There is evidence that if you give people training (rhythm ex) it seems to improve phonological awareness, and improve dyslexia. Dyslexia seems to be m

Parent involvement is a great predictor of a child continuing on with music. Phrase ending: end of a phrase (end of a verse, or whole verse, slower par

Music preferences: preferences for certain genres, liking unfamiliar music, consider from a different point of view style of music, liking music that e

Performance on the melody subtest had a modest positive association with performance on the rhythm. Mean levels of performance were almost identical fo

Perception of melodic and rhythmic patterns are similar to adults. Pre-attentive to: rhythmic changes, beat of music, altered pitch patterns. Infants c

Today we are really going to focus on pitch and timbre. A pure tone just one frequency, a sine wave. ] Naturally occurring sounds are tone complexes co

Natural selection works on the variable of variation. Where animals vary, and where those variations are at least partly inherited, the less successful

Male and female competition (lecture 4, chapter 5 and chapter 6) Sexual selection: advantage that certain individuals have over other individuals of th

Derived from studies on chimpanzees: patrilineal troop structure, male kinship groups. Human social organization: male kin groups, exchange of women, l

Truth in advertising the evolution of body signals. Signals are essential to animal communication that is, the process by which one animal alters the p

Monogamy tends to equalise mate competition between sexes. Women show greater restraint in their use of direct intrasexual aggression, a result of thei

Archaeology: the study of material evidence of past human activities for purposes of explanation. Ontology: the philosophical study of the nature of be

Topics 3 & 4: processualism 1960 present. Mainstream": flannery 1968, binford 1977, wobst 1977, b. smith 2011. Organisms or cultures are systems made u

Hodder 1982 theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view. Hodder 1990 the domestication of europe. Topics 3 & 4: processualism 1960 present. 1975 : beha

Archaeology by paradigm: an ideology, when launched, they were seen as revolutionary (replacing everything prior) How do we recognize a paradigm: by su

Human sociobiology" is a fashionable label for the use of evolutionary biological theory in the study of human social behaviour. Role of human sociobio

Sociobiology the systematic study of biological basis of all forms of social behaviour, including sexual and parental behaviour, in all kinds of organi

Growth: tends to end around adolescence. Mating effort: seeking out copulatory opportunities, evidence from the gametes (millions of sperms is about mo

All of our behaviours is to increase reproductive success. Reproductive success - number of offspring that you successfully reproduce, and these offspr

Behaviour that are seen in the animal kingdom are also seen in ourselves through evolution: evolutionary precursors to help us adapt to our environment

Four avenues of evidence into the sexual behaviors of hominins. 1. the application of the general principles of sexual selection to the fossil record.

Part b: explain a term and give an example of its application to sociobiology (6/8) Part c: answer 4 questions (4 marks each) Males tend to have behavi

Makes it difficult to make a definitive phylogenetic relationship. Not only do we heavily rely on small fragments of these fossils, but also the majori

Describe a locomotion of a particular bone/joint; and 2-3 reasons why we think this. What supports the body the central portion of the body. It is made

Eligocene important in terms of monkey: we see ancestral anthropoid (common ancestor) of monkey, apes and humans. East africa: miocenes are related to

All australopithecines are bipeds they have close similarities in post-cranial skeletons to humans. However, their mechanism of bipedalism is not the s

Lingual = the side of the tooth towards the tongue. Buccal = the side of the tooth towards cheek. Labial = the front of the tooth that is facing the li