[PSYCH 3F03] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (32 pages long!)
1 Dec 2016
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Traces of ourselves in behavior of other primates in particular & mammals more generally. But there is an emerging sense that we are really different (i. e. outliers) Most of us are altruists; exceptional in our capacity for cooperation (we more than other primates) We share food; we cooperate in large groups; we can orchestrate construction of public work; we make sacrifices to protest. Evidence that our pro-social behavior is partly driven by pro-social preferences (i. e. concern for the welfare of others); we prefer outcomes that benefit others; We have concern for how others are doing even those we"re not directly related to. Ancestral trait- inherited from last common ancestor between primates. & other mammals or that of apes & humans or that of modern humans & chimpanzees (~7 million years ago) Baboons form coalitions; chimpanzees collectively patrol boundaries of territories & share food. But behavioral data collected is open to interpretation of motives.
