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| a broader term for mind, encompassing emotions, desires, perceptions, and all other psychological processes |
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| the physical world around us, including its laws and processes |
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| a theory proposed by Charles Darwin to explain how change occurs in nature |
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| process whereby those members of a species that survive and reproduce most effectively are the ones that pass along their genes to future generations |
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| a new gene or combination of genes |
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| producing babies that survive long enough to also reproduce |
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| differences between males and females |
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| sexuality, including coital intercourse |
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| practical ways of doing things |
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| an information-based system that includes shared ideas and common ways of doing things |
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| mental representations that are abstract and that can be expressed in language |
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| animals that seek connections to others and prefer to live, work, and play with other members of their species |
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| the view that evolution shaped the human psyche so as to enable humans to create and take part in culture |
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| the accumulation of knowledge over long periods of time |
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| situation in which each person performs one narrow, highly specialized job in the culture |
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| network of trade and exchange |
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| the exchange of money and goods and services |
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| the branch of psychology that studies ways of making human life better, enriching human experience, and helping people cultivate their potentialities |
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| a choice in which taking or maximizing one benefit requires either accepting a cost of sacrificing another benefit |
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| the idea that the mind has two different processing systems (conscious and automatic) |
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| the part of the mind outside of consciousness that performs simple operations |
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| the part of the mind that performs complex operations |
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