PSYCH 1XX3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Kin Selection, Margo Wilson, Hymenoptera
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Biological sciences goal to elucidate the adaptive designs of living things. Psych 1xx3: adaptations: the working parts the functional systems and subsystems that animals are made up of. Adaptations biological traits/characteristics that help an individual to survive and reproduce in its habitat; perform a specific function: always for something, they perform specific functions that make an organism better suited to its environment. Biological traits aren"t simply morphological perceptual processes and behaviors are also biological adaptations. Adaptationists scientists use this label to describe how hypotheses about adaptive function guide their investigations. Higher mental processes tasks that the mind needs to accomplish to do its job; refer to adaptive functions of mental activity: selective attention, memory encoding, memory retrieval, word recognition. Cognitive psychologists are adaptationists they find it helpful to analyze their subject matter into adaptive problems or tasks, and to look for the adaptations that solve those problems.