Test 1

Question 1

five principals of evolutionary psychology

Answer 1

the brain is a physical system, neural circuits are adapted to the problems faced during our evolutionary history, most of what goes on in our mind is subconscious, different neural circuits solve different adaptive problems, our modern skulls house a stone age mind

Question 2

adaptation

Answer 2

heritable trait evolved via selection that affects an organisms fitness

Question 3

how we can identify an adaptation

Answer 3

evidence of design for a particular function, measure selection on particular trait,comparative method, manipulate trait to look at effect on task

Question 4

three types of consciousness

Answer 4

wakefulness, voluntary action, awareness (mirror test)

Question 5

common criticisms of evolutionary psychology

Answer 5

everything is an adaptation, espouses genetic determinism, reductionist, politically incorrect

Question 6

assumptions of sssm

Answer 6

standard social science method
humans are born as blank slates, behavior is malleable, culture is an autonomous force, behavior determines through learning, learning is general and can be applied to many phenomena

Question 7

materialism

Answer 7

sees the mind as being ultimately reducible to the activities of the brain

Question 8

substrate neutrality

Answer 8

computational processes can be carried out in any medium

Question 9

veridical

Answer 9

our senses have evolved to be a truthful representation, for the most part, of our environment