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| Adaptions are created and change takes place over time. |
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| Success of this is due to strength, intelligence, attractiveness, thus being more able to mate. |
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| Members of one sex choose a mate based on their preferences for a particular qualities in a mate. |
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| Differential Gene Reproduction |
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| Defined by reproductive success relative to others, better genes get passed down. |
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| One person's reproductive success plus the effects you have on the reproduction of your genetic relatives weighted by the degree of genetic relatedness. |
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| Fear of strangers. Very prevalent when our ancestors were alive. |
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| Anything that imposes survival or reproduction. |
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| Incidental effects that are not properly considered to be adapatstions. |
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| Random variations that are neutral with respect to selection. |
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| The three products of the evolutionary process are: |
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-Adaptations
-by-products
-noise
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| Three premises of evolutionary psychology |
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-Domain specificity
-numerousness
-functionality |
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Adaptations are designed by the evolutionary processnto solve a particular adaptive problem. |
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| Our pschological mechanisms are designed to accomplish particular adaptive goals. |
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| Deductive reasoning approach |
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| Inductive reasoning approach |
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| Which is defined as distress or worry about being negatively evaluated in interpersonal situations. |
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| Inherited solutions to survival and reproductive problems posed by hostile forces of nature |
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| Packets of DNA inherited by children from parents. |
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| Natural selection and sexual selection are.. |
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| Different forms of the same process. |
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| Two forms of empirical research |
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Deductive reasoning approach
Inductive reasoning approach |
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Aggression,
jealousy,
desire for sexual variety,
mate preferences |
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| Expect that males and females.. |
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| Will be similar in all domains where sexes have faced similar adaptive problems. |
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Expect sex differences where sexes..
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| Recurrently faced diffeent adaptive problems. |
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| Limitions of Evolutionary Psychology |
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Design features, mechanisms
modern conditions don't match ancestral conditions,
Evolutionary hypotheses accused of being untestable therefore unfalsifiable. |
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| Limitions of Evolutionary Psychology Cont. |
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Can't dtermine with certainty the selective forces on humans have been.
Too many hypotheses for the same phenomena. |
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| A few males will have many offspring, wereas some will have none at all. |
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| Highly different in size and structure. |
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| Frequency dependent selection |
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| If one sex becomes rare relative to the other, evolution will produce an increase in the rarer sex |
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| Restricted sexual strategy |
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| Assesment of opposite sex |
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| Cluster of personality traits marked by irresponsible and unreliable behavior. i.e cheating |
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| Genetic variation is maintained by selection because different levels on a trait dimension are adaptive in different enviornments. |
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-Dominance, Extroversion
-Aggreeableness
-Conscientiousness
-Emotional stability
-Openness, Intellect |
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| Individuals vary, are different from eachother, this variance is due to different causes. |
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| Statistic that refers to the proportion of variance in a group of individuals that can be accounted for by gentic variance. |
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| Correlations between adopted children and their adoptive parents, who share no genes. |
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| Genotype-enviornment interaction |
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| The differential response of individuals with different genotypes to the same enviornment. |
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| Passive-genotype enviornment correlation |
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| Occurs when parents provide both genes and the enviornment to children. |
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| Reactive genotype-enviornment correlation |
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| Occurs when parents or others respond to children differently |
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| Active genotype-enviornment correlation |
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| When a person with a particular genotype cretes or seeks out a particular enviornment. |
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| Identify the specific genes associated with personality traits. |
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| Gene that codes for dopamine receptor. |
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| Personality was determined by socialiation practices. i.e parenting |
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| Nervous system, cardiac system, and musculoskeltal system. |
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| Process where electrical signals are sent from the participant to the polygraph through radio waves instead of by wires. |
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| Fight or flight mechanism |
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| Measures sympathetic nervous system activity |
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| Behavior pattern with impatience, competitiveness and hostility. |
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| Behavioral activation system |
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| Responsive to incentives such as cues for reward and regulates approach behavior. Responsible for the personality dimension of impulsivity. |
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| Behavioral Inhibition System |
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| Responsive to cues for punishment, frustration, and uncertainty. |
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| Sensation seeking is caused by.... |
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| Hebb's theory sates that people are motivated to reach optimal level of arousal. |
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| Chemicals in the nerve cells that are responsible for the transmission nerve impluse from one cell to another. |
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| Responsible for maintaining the proper levels of neurotransmitters. |
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| A neurotransmitter associated with pleasure. |
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| A nerotransmitter, associated with depression and anxiety. |
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| Activates sympathetic nervous system for fight or flight |
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| Tridemensioanl persoanlity model |
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| Three personality traits are tied to three neurotrasmitters. |
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| Based on low levels of dopamime |
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| Abnormalities in serotonin metabloism |
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| Low lovels of norepinephrine |
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| Occurs when a person is small and kinda sleepy |
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| Innate forces that provided all the energy in the psychic system. |
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| Part that contains all the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions that you are presently aware of. |
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| Memories easily brought to mind. |
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| Urges, feelings, or thoughts that are distasteful or scary. |
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| Born with it and it drives all urges. |
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| Desire for immediate gratification |
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| Thinking w/o locgical rules of conscious thought. |
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| Constrains the id to reality. |
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| Secondary process thinking |
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| The development of strategies for solving problems and obatining satisfaction. |
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| Internalizes the values, morals, and ideals of society. Makes us feel bad when we do wrong |
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| Used to defend against all forms of anxiety. Also there to protect the ego, and to minimize anxiety and distress. |
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| An unpleasant state, something is not right and it needs to be fixed. |
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| Occurs when there is a direct conflict between the id and ego. |
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| Caused by a conflict between the ego and superego. |
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| Preventing unacceptable thoughts, feelings from reaching conscious awareness. |
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| Fundamental attribution error |
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| Tendency to blame events outside one's control for failure but to accept responsibility for success. |
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| Threatening impulse redirected from orginal target to nonthreatening target. |
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| Generating acceptable reasons for outcomes tht might otherwise appear social unacceptable. |
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| Feeling one way but acting the opposite way. |
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| We give people unacceptable qualities about ourselves. |
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| Many people have to assume that others are similar to them. |
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| Channeling of unacceptable sexual or aggressive instincts into socially desired activites. |
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| A method of psychotherapy. |
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| Technique by Freud, for uncovering the unconscious material in a dream by interpreting the dream's content. |
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| What the dream actually contains |
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| What the elements of the dream represent. |
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| Patient begins reacting to the analyst as if he or she were an important figure from the patient's on life. |
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