PSYC 3100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Superior Colliculus, Phenotypic Plasticity, Inclusive Fitness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Don Dedrick

Document Summary

Blinking: a behaviour can have more than one function selected for by natural selection, evolution may reshape one function that has been selected for and give it a new purpose by exapting (co-opting) a prior function. Smell: there is a behaviour which may seem inexplicable or contingent (varies with something in the environment diet, habitat) which, once framed in terms of an evolutionary hypothesis, becomes sensible and empirically explained. Language: biologically evolved behaviour may become a foundation for socially transmitted behaviour, language learning is innate, the language that is learned is determined by historical facts (location, parent"s, peers, political circumstances) We know how they are caused, how we recognize them, and how they may develop into disorders. Climate change forced our ancestors from the trees, to the ground, which favoured bipedalism. Living on the ground also favoured group organization, emotions could stabilize or destabilize the group.