PSYC 3100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Pat Barclay

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When writing quizzes be wary of using the following words: species, conscious, culture: these words correlated with misunderstanding the concept. 3. (cid:498)a gene (cid:523)or organism(cid:524) should do x(cid:499: if it wants to succeed, it should do this, good strategy, be careful not to commit the naturalistic fallacy: is vs. ought, ex. Violence: does exist even though we think it ought not to exist: strategic should and not a moral should. If there is a natural disaster: randomly kills a lot of people with blue eyes, blue eye trait will have a lower frequency in the population as a result. In order for a trait to evolve it must: increase reproductive success. If the trait is bad now it will not evolve: there is no such thing as (cid:498)better(cid:499) environments and for that specific organism, ex. Part b: genes and behaviour (introduction: process of phenotypic development, genotype: genetic make up of an organism (what allele it possesses etc (cid:524, ex.