PSY352H5 Final: 2011 Final exam preparation note
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Define briefly what the phenogenetic questions and phylogenetic. Proximate question (phenogenetic causation) concerns the biological and physiological mechanisms of behaviour; how do things work? . Ultimate question (phylogenetic causation) concerns the evolution and adaptive aspect of behaviour; how did it come about? . Explain why the analysis of animal behaviour may have advantages over. Animal psychology stresses controlled laboratory conditions and focuses on general phenomena while ethology in more nature aware and focuses on species specific characteristics. True: species appear to change with time true, change often reflects adaptations to natural surroundings true, there is an overproduction of offspring and not all of the offspring survive. Only the best, the fittest will make it. True: , there must be selection for certain characteristics and against certain other ones. Please give the definition of fitness/ evolutionary fitness. Fitness is the number of viable offspring that reach reproductive age.
