PSY 2110 Chapter 10: Chapter 10.docx
18 Feb 2014
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Evolutionary psychology: instincts and genes: according to darwin, natural selection favour genes that promote the survival of the person, the problem with the evolutionary theory: how can it prove altruism, one way to resolve, is with the notion of kin selection: behaviors that help a genetic relative are favored by natural selection, a person"s motivation to help someone else was more based on their closeness to that person rather than their genetic relatedness, reciprocity norm: expectation that helping others will increase the likelihood that they will help us in the future, reciprocity norm could have become genetically based, infants can pick up whether people intend to help them or not, the ability to learn social norms (one being altruism) has become part of our genetic makeup, evolutionary psychologists believe that people help others because of three factors that have been imprinted in our genes:
