PSYO 2160 Midterm: Chapter 10: Cooperation

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 2160
• Professor: Reeve Cathrine

Document Summary

Reciprocal altruism: if individuals benefited from exchanging acts of cooperative and altruistic behaviour, then this sort of reciprocal exchange system might be favoured by natural selection: if individual a pays a cost to help individual b, but this cost is made up for in the future when b helps a, game theory used when the payoff that individual receives for undertaking an action is dependent on what behaviours others adopt. Prisoner"s dilemma: t temptation to cheat payoff, individual 1 gives away the name of individual 2, individual 2 is punished while individual 1 is dropped of all charges, r reward for mutual cooperation payoff, neither suspect gives away the name of the other, p punishment for mutual defect payoff, both suspects squeal on the other, both receive punishment, s suckers payoff, one suspect gives away the other, the other stay quiet the one that stay quiet is the sucker.