Foundations Of Behavior
Fields of psychology emphasizing evolutionary mechanisms that may help explain human commonalities in cognition, development, emotion, social practices, and other areas of behavior. (Chapter 1, page20). FROM WHAT?
Though applicable to any organism with a nervous system, most EP research focuses on humans.
The term evolutionary psychology was probably coined by Ghiselin in his 1973 article in Science. Jerome Barkow, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby popularized the term in 1002 book-The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (www.oup.com/us/catalog/subject/Psychology /Cognitive/?view) Where is the reference at the bottom for this link? Also you put the link at the bottom and the put, here at the end of the sentence (Oxford University, 2005) This way people could see which link to reference at the bottom and know where to go.
This general evolutionary theory was first looked at by a man named Paley. His theory was that organisms are machines designed to function in particular environments, He also believed that there was a designer... God. Now, Darwin had another theory, natural selection. Darwin did not quite believe that there was one designer.
Natural selection involves three main ingredients:
Variation refers to state in which there exists a variety of traits within a population.
Heritability refers to those traits that can be inherited via reproduction.
Selection refers to those heritable traits that remain in and spread through a population because those traits ultimately aid the organism in survival or reproduction.
Humanistic Psychology
Psychology approach that emphasizes free will, personal growth, resilience, and the achievement of human potential. Humanistic psychology acknowledges that the mind is strongly influence by determining forces in society and in the unconscious, and that some of these are negative and destructive. Humanistic psychology nevertheless...
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