USC Social Psychology (MWF 1:30-2:30 class)

[Mhaven]

sir ako ala pa jud nimu basaha ako answers...ehe

[regnauld]

Why is Evolutionary Psychology importnt to human behavior?

source: Peter B Gray, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, 89154-5003, USA.
Email:

peter.gray@unlv.edu.

Evolutionary approaches to human behavior have their own intellectual trajectory.
Fuentes’ book synthesizes a battery of historical approaches to the evolution of human
behavior, including ones capitalizing on the latest interdisciplinary evolutionary theory.
These are the great strengths of this book, and the reasons why it may have an impact. On
the other hand, there are also major weaknesses. In a number of patches, laundry lists of
ideas take the place of data and people. Sometimes the people get lost in evolutionary
concepts.
The aim of

Evolution of Human Behavior, as proclaimed in the preface, is to nondogmatically
present an integrative approach to the evolution of human behavior. It

succeeds admirably.

And where is your reaction? just 5 points.

[regnauld]

sir ako ala pa jud nimu basaha ako answers...ehe

What page number?

[nika_rianix]

Next question for 10 points. Why is Evolutionary Psychology important in the study of human behavior?

Evolutionary Psychology is important in human behavior because it attempts to explain psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection. Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms, such as the heart, lungs, and immune system, is common in evolutionary biology. Evolutionary psychology applies the same thinking to psychology.
Evolutionary psychologists (see, for example, Buss, 2005; Durrant & Ellis, 2003; Pinker, 2002; Tooby & Cosmides, 2005) argue that much of human behavior is generated by psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments. Other adaptations, according to EP, might include the abilities to infer others' emotions, to discern kin from non-kin, to identify and prefer healthier mates, to cooperate with others, and so on. Consistent with the theory of natural selection, evolutionary psychology sees organisms as often in conflict with others of their species, including mates and relatives. For example, mother mammals and their young offspring sometimes struggle over weaning, which benefits the mother more than the child. Humans, however, have a marked capacity for cooperation under certain conditions as well.
Just as human physiology and evolutionary physiology have worked to identify physical adaptations of the body that represent "human physiological nature," the purpose of evolutionary psychology is to identify evolved emotional and cognitive adaptations that represent "human psychological nature." EP is, to quote Steven Pinker, "not a single theory but a large set of hypotheses" and a term which "has also come to refer to a particular way of applying evolutionary theory to the mind, with an emphasis on adaptation, gene-level selection, and modularity." EP proposes that the human brain comprises many functional mechanisms, called psychological adaptations or evolved cognitive mechanisms or cognitive modules designed by the process of natural selection. Examples include language acquisition modules, incest avoidance mechanisms, cheater detection mechanisms, intelligence and ***-specific mating preferences, foraging mechanisms, alliance-tracking mechanisms, agent detection mechanisms, and others. EP has roots in cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology. It also draws on behavioral ecology, artificial intelligence, genetics, ethology, anthropology, archaeology, biology, and zoology.

source: wikipedia

by: nika armilla

[regnauld]

pwd pa mka answer bsag late na au?naa'y deadline??

yes pwede maka answer but you are behind already with points!

[regnauld]

Evolutionary Psychology is important in human behavior because it attempts to explain psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection. Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms, such as the heart, lungs, and immune system, is common in evolutionary biology. Evolutionary psychology applies the same thinking to psychology.
Evolutionary psychologists (see, for example, Buss, 2005; Durrant & Ellis, 2003; Pinker, 2002; Tooby & Cosmides, 2005) argue that much of human behavior is generated by psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments. Other adaptations, according to EP, might include the abilities to infer others' emotions, to discern kin from non-kin, to identify and prefer healthier mates, to cooperate with others, and so on. Consistent with the theory of natural selection, evolutionary psychology sees organisms as often in conflict with others of their species, including mates and relatives. For example, mother mammals and their young offspring sometimes struggle over weaning, which benefits the mother more than the child. Humans, however, have a marked capacity for cooperation under certain conditions as well.
Just as human physiology and evolutionary physiology have worked to identify physical adaptations of the body that represent "human physiological nature," the purpose of evolutionary psychology is to identify evolved emotional and cognitive adaptations that represent "human psychological nature." EP is, to quote Steven Pinker, "not a single theory but a large set of hypotheses" and a term which "has also come to refer to a particular way of applying evolutionary theory to the mind, with an emphasis on adaptation, gene-level selection, and modularity." EP proposes that the human brain comprises many functional mechanisms, called psychological adaptations or evolved cognitive mechanisms or cognitive modules designed by the process of natural selection. Examples include language acquisition modules, incest avoidance mechanisms, cheater detection mechanisms, intelligence and ***-specific mating preferences, foraging mechanisms, alliance-tracking mechanisms, agent detection mechanisms, and others. EP has roots in cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology. It also draws on behavioral ecology, artificial intelligence, genetics, ethology, anthropology, archaeology, biology, and zoology.

source: wikipedia

by: nika armilla

5 points! Wikipedia is not recommended in research but thats ok!

[Eliza Imee Cajegas]

What page number?

Aku pud sir. . Wala nimu basaha. .

[landolposporo]

wla jud ko nka ila-ila2 nila personally sir kay wla pa cguro pd ko na taw anang mga panahona...but i know there are still some tribes or society nga ni exist as matriarchal but still i don't really know them personally...hehhee...but as an example...the Amazons...the Kuna society who are living at the small islands at the coast of Panama.

Dr. Wilhelmina J. Donkoh, Akan (Ghana)

Female Leadership among the Asante

The Asante constitute one of the principal groups of the matrilineal Akan-speaking people of the modern state of Ghana. An identifying characteristic of the Akan is descent through the female line. Traditionally, such important social and economic institutions as ownership property and inheritance are based on blood affiliation to the matrilineage. Females among the Akan thus are expected to play a unique role in ensuring the perpetuation of the lineage and in identifying who qualifies to be a member. At the same time, as could be found in other traditional societies, social, economic and political responsibilities usually tend to be gender-bound.
This lecture confirms that female leaders among the Asante indeed play a central role within the Asante socio-political system. An examination of specific cases in the history of Asante reveals that where female leaders transcended the gender boundaries, as diplomats or political heads, their actions tended to foster greater social cohesion. Also, through literature review and theoretical analysis the lecture establishes that despite stereotypical views that women only play mundane roles and are mere reproductive units, where women leaders have exerted themselves they have brought distinction and honour upon themselves as well as on their entire lineage and the wider community that they belonged to.


source ani kay: Lecturers of the Congress

[daniellearellano]

sir..good eve..pls ko read ako answer..naa sa page 32..
thnk you sir..

[kisjmsajme]

The letters are too small for me to read! Anyway, I will just give you 5 points!

sorry sir i have modified my post..hehehe

"To be fully ourselves it is in the opposite direction, in the direction of convergence with all the rest, that we must advance--towards the 'other.' The peak of ourselves, the acme of our originality, is not our individuality but our person; and according to the evolutionary structure of the world, we can only find our person by uniting together. There is no mind without synthesis. The same holds good from top to bottom. The true ego grows in inverse proportion to 'egoism.' Like the Omega which attracts it, the element only becomes personal when it universalises itself." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955. p. 263)

source:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

based on what i've understand, we have to learn to see and reach for others.that our true person is not only compose of us but also with the influences coming from other people that surrounds us. like the concept of pakikisama, we tend to be with others to complete our person as a part of the group not only as individuals.