PSYB30H3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 125 pages long!)
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Personality: studying the differences that combine to study individual lives, studying the whole person. Exams: final exam, cumulative 3 hour exam, 8-11, 40 questions, 40 for textbook, 40 for lecture (same for the other sections, 4-6, 10 questions, 1-3, 10 questions, 2 midterm exams, 1-3, 20 questions, 4-6, 20 questions. Scientific theories: explicitly defined constructs, linked by correspondence rules, specifying testable hypotheses. How to test your hypothesis: questionnaires / scales, e. g. Intersexual competition: e. g. peacocks" plumage, the choosier sex (usually females) select for (and have consensus) for specific attributes, in spite of the natural selection costs, more obvious to predators, but also more preferred by females, inter = between. Overview of part ii: the attachment system, individual differences in attachment, romantic love as an attachment process. Overview of part iii: pair bonding, why do we attach in our pair bonding behavior, paternal care vs neoteny, two hypotheses, homologous vs convergent evolution.
