PSYCH 1XX3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Darwin'S Finches, Human Leukocyte Antigen, Woodpecker Finch
6 Feb 2014
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Strategy for screening potential mates instead function in the realm of social support. Wedekind was looking at: discoveries: self-similarity at certain genetic loci affects women"s responses to male body odours. Women"s hormonal state exerts a modulating effect on these affective responses: no psychologist operating without the heuristic benefit of evolutionary theories and knowledge could ever have discovered these facts. Section 2: essential facts and ideas about evolution. Section 3: why evolutionary theory matters to psychological design. Ex. more efficient to walk with 2 legs that are the same length. Long-term preferences were relatively unchanged by menstrual cycle phase. Genetic relatedness: genetic relatedness (r): measure of the probability that the recipient carries copies of the gene promoting the helping behaviour. Hamilton theoretical biologist identified the problems of sociality and developed the inclusive fitness theory to explain it. Children co-residing with stepparents are more likely to be neglected and abused than genetic children.
