SOP 3004 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Casual Sex, Housekeeping, Incest

• School: FIU
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOP 3004
• Professor: Michelle Thompson

Document Summary

Natural selection: process by which heritable traits that best enable organisms to survive and (cid:396)ep(cid:396)odu(cid:272)e i(cid:374) pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ula(cid:396) e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts a(cid:396)e passed to e(cid:374)sui(cid:374)g ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)atio(cid:374)s. e(cid:454): da(cid:396)(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s su(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:448)al of the fittest, epigenetics. Evolutionary psychology: study of the evolution of cognition and behavior using principles of natural selection. Dar(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)al of the fittest: brought up the idea that some races are superior than other human races. Enduring behavior, ideas, attitudes and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. Norms are standards for accepted and expected behavior: i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual choi(cid:272)es, e(cid:454)p(cid:396)essi(cid:448)e(cid:374)ess, pu(cid:374)(cid:272)tualit(cid:455, rule b(cid:396)eaki(cid:374)g, pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)al pa(cid:272)e. Universality within cultures: u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)sal f(cid:396)ie(cid:374)dship no(cid:396)(cid:373)s, u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)sal t(cid:396)ait di(cid:373)e(cid:374)sio(cid:374)s (cid:894)big fi(cid:448)e. Personality dimensions: u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)sal o(cid:272)ial belief di(cid:373)e(cid:374)sio(cid:374)s, u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)sal tatus no(cid:396)(cid:373)s, i(cid:374)(cid:272)est ta(cid:271)oo, no(cid:396)(cid:373)s of (cid:449)a(cid:396) (cid:894)ide(cid:374)tifia(cid:271)le u(cid:374)ifo(cid:396)(cid:373)s, surrender with a gesture of submission, Gender: what it means to be a male or female in the social world. Sex: what you are assigned at birth (biological).