[PSYC 3100] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (119 pages long)

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

Document Summary

Study guide: 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. The discussion of blinking suggests purpose by exapting (co-opting) a prior function. The discussion of smell suggests something in the environment diet, habitat) which, once framed in terms of an evolutionary hypothesis, becomes sensible and empirically explained. The discussion of language suggests behaviour facts (location, parent"s, peers, political circumstances) Did not believe natural selection could explain the human mind. Wallace arrived at natural selection first, the mind is where evolution stops . Our minds can be explained by the same principles that govern our bodies. Niko tinbergen, on the aims and methods of ethology , 1963. Multiple pathways to the same feature (such as eyes) There is nothing unusual about deriving principles and methods,