07/09/12 Bowlby’s Evolutionary Theory “Babies’ smiles are powerful things‚ leaving mothers spellbound and enslaved. Who can doubt that the baby who most readily rewards his mother with a smile is the one who is best loved and best cared for?” – Bowlby‚ 1957. John Bowlby was a psychoanalyst (like Freud) and believed that mental health and behavioral problems could be attributed to early childhood. Bowlby’s evolutionary theory of attachment suggests that children come into the world biologically
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The American Revolution was Evolutionary because each event that took place‚ leading up to the end of everything was to push forward and advance. The French and Indian war was the beginning of the American Revolution. Ethan Allen and his crew of green mountain boys and Benedict Arnold fought in the French and Indian war‚ as well as Charles Cornwallis ‚ Friedrich Von Steuben and Thomas Gage. (also known as Seven Year’s war). During the Seven Year’s war‚ Great Britain won but due to the French’s expansion
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Discuss evolutionary explanations of group display in humans From an evolutionary perspective‚ it has been emphasized that Natural selection has favored genes that cause group member to be altruistic toward members of their own group‚ but intolerant towards outsiders. This is known as Xenophobia-a fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners. MacDonald suggests that over exaggerating the stereotypes of outsiders helps survival as seeing an exaggerated threat is safer than under estimating a threat
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Adaptive Problems as the Root Cause of Aggression In the article “Human Aggression and in Evolutionary Psychological Perspective‚” David M. Buss and Todd K. Shackelford explain the root cause of aggression. Today‚ many people believe that aggression is caused by social learning. At a young age people are introduced to violent television shows‚ video games‚ movies‚ etc. Some would say that because of these violent video games and television shows‚ aggression is learned at a young age and therefore
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Buss 1 Bibliography of David Buss M J PSY330 Dr. C M February 10‚ 2012 David Buss 2 Bibliography of David Buss Evolutionary psychologists‚ such as David Buss‚ approach the social and natural sciences to examine psychological traits such as memory‚ perception‚ and language from a modern evolutionary perspective. Evolutionary psychologists also argue that much of human behavior is the output of psychological adaptations that have evolved to solve recurrent problems in
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This paper compares the perspectives of evolutionary psychology and social structural theory on sex differences in jealousy‚ mate preferences‚ and aggression. These two theories shed somewhat different lights on the origins of sex differences between men and women. Both theories discuss sex differences in mate preferences‚ jealousy‚ and aggression. Explanations from the two theories are compared and contrasted. Explanations for Sex Differences Evolutionary psychologists have developed
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Perilloux‚ Easton and Buss (2012) investigated sex differences in the perception of sexual interest and claim to have found support for a short term mating strategy in men with evolutionary origins. While their findings have sufficient evidence‚ this essay will explore alternative influences that have not been adequately investigated. An investigation into the study conducted by Perilloux‚ Easton and Buss (2012) concludes that the stated claims and conclusions
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Personality Theory and Human Nature This paper will evaluate David M. Buss‚ personality theory and human nature. According to Buss‚ most studies in personality theory are concerned with how and why individuals differ from one another‚ evolutionary psychology primary goal is a description of human nature. The theory of human nature describes what it means to be human‚ and how humans are like one another. David Buss was born on April 1953 in Indianapolis‚ Indiana. He was a high school drop out
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Describe and Evaluate the Evolutionary perspective of Psychology Jemma de Jonge IB Evolutionary psychology is an attempt to explain parts of human behaviour- such as perception‚ personality and language. It is an attempt to draw a valid conclusion by with logical connections from human behaviour to science. It is a basic attempt to explain why and how humans got to the way that they are today. A very famous English naturalist Charles Darwin put forth the idea of natural selection and adaptation
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Evolutionary Psychology www.epjournal.net – 2009. 7(2): 208-233 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Original Article Evolution‚ Psychology‚ and a Conflict Theory of Culture Kevin MacDonald‚ Department of Psychology‚ California State University – Long Beach‚ Long Beach‚ CA‚ USA. Email: kmacd@csulb.edu (Corresponding author). Abstract: This article develops an evolutionary theory of conflict over the construction of culture that is informed by current knowledge of psychological mechanisms. Psychological
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