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33 Cards in this Set
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Why should a woman be concerned about the infidelity of her male partner? |
If the man is unfaithful to his wife he won't focused on providing for his family. |
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Why should a man be concerned about the infidelity of his female partner? |
He wants "to plant his seed" and the woman is having sex with other men it might not be his child. |
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Paternity Uncertainty |
The dad being uncertain of the child being his. This is important because he is spending all of his time with his wife and child, so if that's not helping reach his goal (PLANTING THE SEED) than he's wasted his life. |
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What is most attractive about a woman to men? |
Signs of Fertility: Younger, breasts, hourglass shape |
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What is most attractive about a man to a woman? |
Wealth, Ambition, Power |
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What is the main goal of human beings, to evolutionary psychologists. |
Plant the seed! |
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Who is more aggressive? Men or Women? |
Men |
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Classical Conditioning |
Learning to associate two events. when one occurs, another is expected to occur. |
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Pavlov's Study |
He did a study with a dog, bell, and food. He discovered that the dogs relates the bell ringing, with food. Even when the food isn't their, the dog still salivates. |
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Stimulus generalization |
fear of specific stimulus ex: seeing snake=pain |
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Unconditioned Stimulus |
example: food in Pavlov's study |
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Unconditioned Response |
example: salivation |
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Conditioned Stimulus |
example: bell |
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Conditioned Response |
example: salivation |
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Punishment |
Opposite of Reinforcement (an attempt to make a behavior decrease) |
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Positive Punishment |
Inflicting Negative Stimuli When behavior occurs |
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Negative Punishment |
Taking away positive stimuli when behavior occurs |
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Reinforcement |
An attempt to increase a behavior |
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Positive Reinforcement |
Adding pleasing stimuli when behavior occurs to increase the behavior |
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Negative Reinforcement |
Taking away negative stimuli when behavior occurs to increase the behavior |
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Thorndike's Law of effect |
you can do things to make a behavior increase or decrease |
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Fixed Ratio |
reinforcer is applied after a certain amount of behaviors has occured ex: spanking child ever 3 times he cusses |
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Fixed Interval |
Applying the reinforcer after a specific amount of time example: Getting a raise ever other year |
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Variable Ratio |
Random amounts of time you don't make your bed, you get spanked |
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Variable Interval |
Random amounts of time before reinforcement takes place |
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Mirror Neurons |
Same neurons going off in your brain from seeing someone else in pain |
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Serial position effect |
you can only remember the the first and last bits of information |
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capacity of short term memory |
can only hold a few bits of information briefly example: seven digits of a phone number |
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longterm memory |
basically limitless |
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ebbinghaus forgetting curve |
after learning something new, you will forget a lot quickly and then it will level off and you will remember the rest of the info for longer |
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Retrieval cues |
something that happens that makes you recall a memory from long term memory |
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Confirmation bias |
searching for evidence that supports what we believed would happen, and ignoring evidence that disproves what we expected |
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How to calculatate |
mental age/chronological age x 100 |