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Comparative & Evolutionary Psychology

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Decks in this class (22)

Lecture 1
Why do we study evolutionary psyc...,
What is genetic determinism,
What is naturalistic fallacy
11  cards
Lecture 3
Why do people get married,
Discuss the three marriage systems,
Why would a woman marry a married...
27  cards
Lecture 2
How do you attract and choose a mate,
Define anisogamy,
Discuss what anisogamy is
19  cards
Lecture 4
How much probability do parent an...,
How much probability do full sibl...,
What is hamiltons rule
20  cards
Lecture 5
What is parental investment,
What is parent offsrping conflict,
What happens to parental investme...
30  cards
Lecture 6
Is language just a human characte...,
What is the model of communcation,
Discuss what hockett 1960 found a...
22  cards
Lecture 7
How did dennett 1995 descrive evo...,
Discuss the resistance against ps...,
Discuss the difference between th...
12  cards
Lecture 8
What did cosmides tooby 1987 say ...,
What did fodor 1983 say that modu...,
What did tooby cosmides and barko...
10  cards
Lecture 9
What is the difference between in...,
Discuss the problem evolutionary ...,
Why are individual differences a ...
12  cards
Lecture 10
What is theory of mind,
Why do we study theory of mind in...,
What do we already know about tom
14  cards
Lecture 11
How is culture related to evoluti...,
Is culture what makes us human,
Do other animals exhibit culture
16  cards
Comp 1
What is comparative psychology,
What are the 4 sub disciplines to...,
How are comparative psychologists...
8  cards
Comp 2
What are the forms of learning,
Discuss the types of associative ...,
Should we expect animals to effic...
10  cards
Comp 3
What is main problem with compara...,
What are the pros and cons of exp...,
What are the pros and cons of an ...
12  cards
Comp 4
What is cognition,
Do animals have understanding of ...,
Discuss primates ability to under...
13  cards
Comp 5
What is aggression,
Discuss the causes of aggression,
Discuss dominance in relation to ...
12  cards
Comp 6
Do animals have emotions like humans,
Did human emotional expressions e...,
Discuss empathy
15  cards
Comp 7
What is human social cognition,
Discuss human development in term...,
Discuss flavells research
9  cards
Comp 8
What are prosocial behaviours and...,
Why do individuals show altruism ...,
Do animals show altruism to unkno...
15  cards
Comp 9
Why do researchers say that socia...,
What is social cognition in infan...,
Discuss joint attention and langu...
20  cards
Comp 10
Discuss communicating with emotions,
Discuss human communciation with ...,
How do we measure animals levels ...
10  cards
Comp 11
Why are we interested in domestic...,
What is domestication,
What is the comestication syndrome
21  cards

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