PSYCH 335 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Heredity, Ontogeny, Evolutionarily Stable Strategy
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The scientific method: start with a question, come up with a working hypothesis, use hypothesis to develop testable prediction, collect data about prediction, reject/accept hypothesis, keep testing. Ultimate- long-term, evolutionary causes, adaptive value, historical mods. Phylogeny evolutionary history, origin and change over time. Each is needed for complete understanding of behavior. Evolution is not natural selection: natural selection is one mechanism that can cause evolution. No goal or direct path for evolution. Selection is not always bell-shaped disruptive (two peaks), stabilizing (peak gets narrower), directional (peak shifts) The process whereby some organisms in a species have certain inherited variations that give them an advantage over others. Offspring on average resemble parents more than other individuals. Statistical hereditability (0-1. 0): proportion of the differences between individuals in a population due to genetic differences: differential survival and reproduction. For natural selection to occur, differences in success must be.
