PSYCH 3F03- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3F03
• Professor: David Feinberg

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Lecture 1- evolution and human behavior (3f03: this course is the fundamental to dr. krupp(cid:495)s research- social evolution. To look at attractiveness in regards to conflict. Are crimes committed against close relatives, distant or non-kin. The higher the number, the less likely they were to hurt kin and more likely to hurt non-kin. Individuals will treat each other differently depending on how different they are to each other and how many others similar they have seen. Inequality- cooperation decreased cooperation when differences occur: the material we will cover is on the basis of the work dr. krupp does, Mcmaster is a fundamental institution for evolutionary psychology: apply evolutionary theory to human behavior- draw on biology, psychology, anthropology, economics, medicine, etc. Form an appreciation for the place of evolutionary thinking in the study of human behavior. Student generated answers; a wrong answer is better than no answer. For lectures and readings don(cid:495)t just underline or highlight.