PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Bluegill, Nepotism, Reciprocal Altruism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Rana Pishva

Document Summary

Developmental psychology: concerned with the environmental variance component. The prenatal and postnatal environmental influences affecting individuals. Evolutionary psychology: concerned with the design of human nature, all human behavioural characteristics that are the product of natural selection in ancestral environments. Behavioural genetics: concerned with the partition of individual differences into genetic and environmental variance components. Evolutionary fitness: the probability that the line of descent from an individual with a specific trait will not die out. Genetic load: the reduction in overall evolutionary fitness for a population compared to what the population would have if all individuals had the most favoured genotype. Naturalistic fallacy: the belief that characteristics produced by evolution are either natural and good or unnatural and morally bad rather than amorally selectionist. Genetic deterministic fallacy: the belief that genes determine behaviour independently of environmental influences. Facultative: determined by the immediate environment, regardless of cultural and environmental differences. Obligate: develop to a large degree independently of variations in environmental context.