PSYCH 3GG3 Study Guide - Advantageous, Promiscuity, Menopause
19 Oct 2014
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Early experience influences development and can contribute to individual differences in adulthood. Facultative adaptation: adaptations designed to respond developmentally to specific cues in the environment, allows us to optimize the fit between the individual and environment. Functional in the eea, prepared organism for varying environments: exp. Environment varied in the eea between communities and between people. Allows us to assess our circumstances before choosing a strategy. Calories abundant prenatally, infant is sensitive to insulin since they don"t need to horde fat. Cultural adaptations: culture is unique to human. Social learning of behaviours is present in many species: only humans have cumulative culture. Several individuals can accumulate innovation on top of innovation. Allowed them to design complex artifacts: weapons to iphones. Adaptation that is crucial to developing culture. Observe behaviour, infer goals and reproduce behaviour in new contexts and time delays: hadza vs. !kung: ecologically dependent parenting strategies. The ecological context can shape behaviours that we might think are more cultural.
