PSYC 332 Chapter 1: Chapter 1

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Personality is a unique variation on the general design of human nature. Human nature= what human beings have in common with each other by virtue of the fact that we are all human beings. In the beginning, natural selection created human beings to be brainy, bipedal creatures who live together in social groups. In all the accounts of beginnings in different religions eg. judaism, islam, christianity etc, homo sapiens are portrayed as extremely social and smart. The evolution of big brains and human society. The difference between humans and other species is our tremendous cognitive power and our social nature. Animals are adapted to their evolutionary challenges and ecological niches eg. dogs hearing is better than humans. Nearly everything humans do finds its essential contexts and meanings within a social nexus we are an extremely social species. We work together to achieve better livelihood, compete and form social hierarchies, etc.