Introduction - Department of Computer Science
... Those individuals that compete for the resources most effectively have increased chance of reproduction ...
... Those individuals that compete for the resources most effectively have increased chance of reproduction ...
- Philsci-Archive
... are mathematical theorems that hold regardless of causal details of populations. In response, causalists maintain the derivation of these principles requires some form or another of causal assumptions. Because the nature of a theory, scientific or mathematical, is largely determined by its premises, ...
... are mathematical theorems that hold regardless of causal details of populations. In response, causalists maintain the derivation of these principles requires some form or another of causal assumptions. Because the nature of a theory, scientific or mathematical, is largely determined by its premises, ...
Myers-Psychology-for-AP-1E-1
... what happens in our brain when we forget details about stressful life events, and how does this process affect behavior? A. structuralism B. behaviorism C. humanistic psychology D. cognitive neuroscience E. functionalist experimental psychology Answer: D 38. Contemporary psychology is best defined a ...
... what happens in our brain when we forget details about stressful life events, and how does this process affect behavior? A. structuralism B. behaviorism C. humanistic psychology D. cognitive neuroscience E. functionalist experimental psychology Answer: D 38. Contemporary psychology is best defined a ...
Psychological Research in Context Explore the history and context o
... scales, select a sample, collect and analyse data appropriately, interpret findings and produce individual reports of the work undertaken. The module will also build upon the content of Statistics 1. Particular emphasis will be placed on factorial ANOVA and the concept of interaction. You will also ...
... scales, select a sample, collect and analyse data appropriately, interpret findings and produce individual reports of the work undertaken. The module will also build upon the content of Statistics 1. Particular emphasis will be placed on factorial ANOVA and the concept of interaction. You will also ...
Interpreting evolutionary diagrams: When topology and process
... represent patterns of evolutionary relationships among taxa that provide a framework to help people think about processes that might account for these patterns (e.g., Clark, 2001; Gould, 1995). It is critical to investigate how students understand the information depicted in phylogenies as a prelude ...
... represent patterns of evolutionary relationships among taxa that provide a framework to help people think about processes that might account for these patterns (e.g., Clark, 2001; Gould, 1995). It is critical to investigate how students understand the information depicted in phylogenies as a prelude ...
Introduction - Department of Computer Science
... Those individuals that compete for the resources most effectively have increased chance of reproduction ...
... Those individuals that compete for the resources most effectively have increased chance of reproduction ...
ANNUAL REVIEW PACKET
... 48. There has been much research into identical twins. What have researchers learned from studying identical twins who have been raised apart? How do these findings affect the nature/nurture debate? ...
... 48. There has been much research into identical twins. What have researchers learned from studying identical twins who have been raised apart? How do these findings affect the nature/nurture debate? ...
Psychological Altruism
... They both know that without the testimony of the other, there is not enough evidence to imprison them for more than a year. However, they also know that if they collaborate with the police and blame the other one, the other would go to prison for 20 years, but they would go free. Reciprocal Altr ...
... They both know that without the testimony of the other, there is not enough evidence to imprison them for more than a year. However, they also know that if they collaborate with the police and blame the other one, the other would go to prison for 20 years, but they would go free. Reciprocal Altr ...
Evolution, genes, and inter-disciplinary personality research
... proportion of VNA will be medium for traits under mutation-selection balance and large for traits under balancing selection might be considered as the weakest in Table 1. However, we do not follow Keller’s sudden dismissal of the prediction that VNA will be higher in traits under selection (includin ...
... proportion of VNA will be medium for traits under mutation-selection balance and large for traits under balancing selection might be considered as the weakest in Table 1. However, we do not follow Keller’s sudden dismissal of the prediction that VNA will be higher in traits under selection (includin ...
use of an explicit method for distinguishing exaptations from
... paper as evolution based on adaptive processes) is used to elucidate this evolutionary process. When the environment acts in favor of selection (microevolution) of certain life forms to better explore a particular way of life, clearly the final expression of those given forms can be traced back from ...
... paper as evolution based on adaptive processes) is used to elucidate this evolutionary process. When the environment acts in favor of selection (microevolution) of certain life forms to better explore a particular way of life, clearly the final expression of those given forms can be traced back from ...
CONTENTS
... The Development of a Physiologist 326 Working in Pavlov's Laboratory 328 Pavlov's Classical Conditioning Research 330 Conditioning and Extinction 331 Generalization and Differentiation 332 Experimental Neurosis 332 A Program of Research 333 Pavlov and the Soviets 334 Pavlov and the Americans 335 Clo ...
... The Development of a Physiologist 326 Working in Pavlov's Laboratory 328 Pavlov's Classical Conditioning Research 330 Conditioning and Extinction 331 Generalization and Differentiation 332 Experimental Neurosis 332 A Program of Research 333 Pavlov and the Soviets 334 Pavlov and the Americans 335 Clo ...
Divergent selection on, but no genetic conflict over, female and male
... correlated with cholesterol in men, potentially leading to maintenance of overall higher cholesterol levels despite selection for reduced cholesterol in females. Overall however, it remains largely unknown whether heritabilities and genetic correlations with fitness are different between the two sex ...
... correlated with cholesterol in men, potentially leading to maintenance of overall higher cholesterol levels despite selection for reduced cholesterol in females. Overall however, it remains largely unknown whether heritabilities and genetic correlations with fitness are different between the two sex ...
“Adaptation”1
... adaptedness, a concept tied much more intimately to the process of natural selection than the absolute one was. All organisms face a multitude of problems bearing on survival and reproduction. If they all vary (at least slightly) in virtually all their features, then typical organisms are not perfec ...
... adaptedness, a concept tied much more intimately to the process of natural selection than the absolute one was. All organisms face a multitude of problems bearing on survival and reproduction. If they all vary (at least slightly) in virtually all their features, then typical organisms are not perfec ...
Mate choice turns cognitive
... cues computed from face and body shape are not arbitrary, but function as reliable indicators of phenotypic and genetic quality. The same approach could be extended from physical to psychological cues if evolutionary psychology built stronger ties with personality psychology, psychometrics and behav ...
... cues computed from face and body shape are not arbitrary, but function as reliable indicators of phenotypic and genetic quality. The same approach could be extended from physical to psychological cues if evolutionary psychology built stronger ties with personality psychology, psychometrics and behav ...
History and Schools of Thought in Psychology
... determine the minimum intensity level of a stimulus that is needed to produce a sensation. English naturalist Charles Darwin was particularly influential in the development of psychology. In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species, in which he proposed that all living forms were a product of ...
... determine the minimum intensity level of a stimulus that is needed to produce a sensation. English naturalist Charles Darwin was particularly influential in the development of psychology. In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species, in which he proposed that all living forms were a product of ...
Recent Evolutionary Theorizing About Economic Change
... came to be. Further, often there is good reason to suspect that evolution presently is going on at a relatively rapid rate, and thus equilibrium of any kind is not an appropriate concept for analysis. It would appear that many economists who use developmental and evolutionary language have in mind n ...
... came to be. Further, often there is good reason to suspect that evolution presently is going on at a relatively rapid rate, and thus equilibrium of any kind is not an appropriate concept for analysis. It would appear that many economists who use developmental and evolutionary language have in mind n ...
HUMAN AGGRESSION IN EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGICAL
... cognitive scripts). Evolutionary psychology starts with a set of premises about human behavior. First, according to evolutionary psychology, all human behavior is a product of mechanisms internal to the person, in conjunction with inputs that trigger the activation of those mechanisms. Even the simp ...
... cognitive scripts). Evolutionary psychology starts with a set of premises about human behavior. First, according to evolutionary psychology, all human behavior is a product of mechanisms internal to the person, in conjunction with inputs that trigger the activation of those mechanisms. Even the simp ...
Origins of evolutionary transitions
... Maynard Smith and Szathmáry included several additional events, which I have omitted here because they are more controversial. They included the origin of sex, and also of language, because they characterized the transitions as being a reorganization of the way in which information is transmitted ac ...
... Maynard Smith and Szathmáry included several additional events, which I have omitted here because they are more controversial. They included the origin of sex, and also of language, because they characterized the transitions as being a reorganization of the way in which information is transmitted ac ...
Tempo, mode and phylogenetic associations of relative embryo size
... not significantly different from zero, then related taxa are not more similar than expected by chance, and therefore the trait is evolving among the species as if they were independent (i.e. as in star-like phylogenies or nonphylogenetic informed cross-species analyses). If k differs from zero, but ...
... not significantly different from zero, then related taxa are not more similar than expected by chance, and therefore the trait is evolving among the species as if they were independent (i.e. as in star-like phylogenies or nonphylogenetic informed cross-species analyses). If k differs from zero, but ...
Lecture 11: Functionalism, the US brand of
... He formulated the symbols S-O-R to include the organism and particularly the organism’s motivation. His text, Experimental Psychology, remained the standard text in experimental psychology for two ...
... He formulated the symbols S-O-R to include the organism and particularly the organism’s motivation. His text, Experimental Psychology, remained the standard text in experimental psychology for two ...
Inglês
... All of these questions are particularly important to a behavioral system because it’s based on their answers that a scientist of behavior can explain how an organism can change his way of act when it is under a environmental challenging situation such as exploring new scenarios, finding food and/or ...
... All of these questions are particularly important to a behavioral system because it’s based on their answers that a scientist of behavior can explain how an organism can change his way of act when it is under a environmental challenging situation such as exploring new scenarios, finding food and/or ...
Evolution on purpose: how behaviour has shaped the evolutionary
... Lamarckism and assigned to behaviour a more prominent role in evolution. Although their perspectives differed somewhat, their views were generally lumped together under psychologist James Mark Baldwin’s term ‘Organic Selection’ (Baldwin, 1896a, b, c, 1902; also Lloyd Morgan, 1891, 1896a, b, 1908/190 ...
... Lamarckism and assigned to behaviour a more prominent role in evolution. Although their perspectives differed somewhat, their views were generally lumped together under psychologist James Mark Baldwin’s term ‘Organic Selection’ (Baldwin, 1896a, b, c, 1902; also Lloyd Morgan, 1891, 1896a, b, 1908/190 ...
References ON B.F. SKINNER — WHO, HAD HIS THEORY BEEN
... his professional activity as there is for any other academic: physicists cook hamburgers without thinking of the laws of thermodynamics, biologists clean their bathrooms without thinking of the human genome, political scientists watch Survivor without thinking of the vicissitudes of exit polling, an ...
... his professional activity as there is for any other academic: physicists cook hamburgers without thinking of the laws of thermodynamics, biologists clean their bathrooms without thinking of the human genome, political scientists watch Survivor without thinking of the vicissitudes of exit polling, an ...
Darwin`s Legacy to Comparative Psychology
... and although he was not the first to be deeply interested in how animals communicate “ideas” or emotions to others (e.g., Thompson, 1851), his writings on sexual selection (Darwin, 1871) used such observations freely. His book on the expression of emotions (Darwin, 1872), which attempted to develop ...
... and although he was not the first to be deeply interested in how animals communicate “ideas” or emotions to others (e.g., Thompson, 1851), his writings on sexual selection (Darwin, 1871) used such observations freely. His book on the expression of emotions (Darwin, 1872), which attempted to develop ...
A Critique of the Rape as a Psychological Adaptation Model
... complexly as an act that uses sex as a means for power and control. It follows that ideas about rape are tied to ideas about sex. Sex can be constructed with different meanings, it can be performed different ways, and it can have specific functions within the structure of a society. Sex is also esse ...
... complexly as an act that uses sex as a means for power and control. It follows that ideas about rape are tied to ideas about sex. Sex can be constructed with different meanings, it can be performed different ways, and it can have specific functions within the structure of a society. Sex is also esse ...