PSYC 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Determinative, Psychopathy, Positron Emission Tomography

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 250
• Professor: Derringer Jaime

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Feel free to work on this study guide with others, including in-person and on- line sharing. The success with which a trait is propagated in future generations relative to other variants of that trait is called fitness. Why do evolutionary psychology theorists think altruism developed: one person helps another person in exchange for future help. Helping others will aid your own differential gene reproduction: altruism likely developed to increase inclusive fitness (successful transmission of one"s genes from all sources to the next generation). Which personality traits predict number of grandchildren for each sex: women: agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, men: extraversion, conscientiousness, openness. Why haven"t we evolved to a single optimum species- wide personality: if personality is evolutionarily relevant, then it should be at least partially genetic in origin. Individual differences persist because there is not set best strategy, we are no longer living in the. Eea and the system can be maladaptive or can allow cheating.