PSYC 3420 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1, 2, 5, 6, 11: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Mate Choice, Radical Behaviorism
20 Nov 2018
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Chapter 1: the scientific movements leading to evolutionary psychology. Identify 3 essential ingredients of natural selection: define particulate inheritance, list 3 common misunderstandings about evolutionary theory. Indetify when neanderthals went extinct: explain why radical behaviorism went into scientific decline. Landmarks in the history of evolutionary thinking: evolution before darwin. The origin of species was published in 1859 by darwin. Biologie recognized the study of life as a distinct science, first used by jean baptiste lamarck. Jean baptiste lamarck believed 2 major causes of species to change: natural tendency for each species to progress toward a higher form, inheritance of acquired characteristics. Proposed that animals must struggle to survive and this struggle causes their nerves to secrete a fluid that enlarges the organs involved in the struggle. Giraffes evolved long necks through their attempts to eat from higher leaves and these were passed down to succeeding generations, hence the phrase the inheritance of acquired characteristics .
