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| Natural Selection / Evolutionary Fitness |
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| When a characteristic, NOT an individual, is best suited/adapted to its environment and survives to be passed on to the next generation |
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| Knowledge and principles from theories of evolution are applied to the mind |
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Modules are specific mechanimsms within the mind that work independently to solve needs
Ex: women with higher pitched voices sounds sexy because they have high estrogen levels, unconscious brain picks up on that |
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| What are the two types of cultural approaches? |
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- Cross cultural approach: learning about cultural influences on the mind by examining cultural differences
- Learning by examining cultural change within a culture
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| Where does collectivism come from? What are some characteristics of collectivism? What countries seems to have a collectivism sort of culture? |
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- There is correlation between collectivism and the amount of infection present within a culture
- Collectivist cultures have less tolerance for out-groupe members and deviance
- Eastern Asia, many parts of Africa and some parts of South America.
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| What is the ecological approach? |
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| This combines evolutionary and cultural. Natural selection favors animals that adapt to their current surroundings/culture in specific ways at the time being. This is in a shorter time frame than natural selection. |
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| The Face-Space is the average of all the faces you see on a regular basis as the current point of time in your life. This can change as you move, go to different schools, and experience different things in life. |
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| What types of faces do we find the most attractive? |
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| We tend to find the most common and average faces from out Face-Space the most attractive |
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| How can what we think of a face change how we feel about a person? |
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| People who have similar faces and show a resemblance tend to induce more trust in the person who is viewing them. However, people that are different and don't resemble the person tend to be seen as more attractive. |
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| What is imprinting and who did the first studies on it? |
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| Lorenz. He imprinted a group of baby geese to himself and a duckling to a puppy. These animals tend to trust and stick around with the first large organism that the see in their life. |
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