Psychology 3229A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Twin Study, Heritability, Evolutionary Medicine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3229A/B
• Professor: Scott Mac Dougall- Shackleton

Document Summary

2. preparations for reproduction: reproducive effort 3. reproduction, what makes the organism"s task difficult is that investing time and effort in any one of these. Maximizing fitness from the point of view of offspring: when conditions are harsh, the best thing might be to maximize current survival; when times are good it might be better to maximize future success by exploiting learning opportunities. Group socialization theory and environmental influence: harries argues that parent are remarkably poor role models for how children should behave, in all cultures, parents do many things that children would be punished for doing. Group socialization and evolutionary psychology: there are four reasons why children might have evolved to be socialized by their peers rather than by their parents, younger members of human and non-human primate species tend to be the innovators. Moral development: robert wright described human beings as the moral animal, this sense is not merely cognitive, it is accompanied by powerful emotions.