Ch. 2 Social Psychology And Human Nature 2Nd Edition, Baumeister & Bushman Ch. 2

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The broader term for mind.

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psyche

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The physical world around us, including its laws and processes.

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Nature

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The advocates of nature in psychology turn to ___ ___ to understand behavior patterns.

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Evolutionary Theory

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The process whereby those members of a species that survive and reproduce most effectively are the ones that pass along their genes to future generations.

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Natural Selection

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Producing babies that survive long enough to reproduce.

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Reproduction

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A new gene or combination of genes.

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Mutation

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Being social improves what two things?

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Survival and Reproduction

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Larger brains lead to?

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Larger/Complex social groups

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Animals that seek connections to others and prefer to live, work, and play with other members of their species.

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Social Animals

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The view that evolution shaped the human psyche so as to enable humans to create and take part in culture

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Cultural Animals

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The practical way of doing things.

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Praxis

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An information-based system that includes shared ideas and common ways of doing things.

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Culture

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The idea that the mind has two different processing systems. (What are the two?)

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Duplex Mind: (conscious and automatic)

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The part of the mind outside of consciousness that performs simple operations

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Automatic Systems

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The part of the mind that performs complex operations

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Conscious Systems

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The inner processes serve what?

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Interpersonal Functions

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_____ is a major battleground between nature and culture.

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Self-interest

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____ is probably the most basic conflict in the human psyche.

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Self-interest

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____ ____ has not favored caring about the distant future.

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Natural Selection

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The future is more important to ____ _____ than to other animals.

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cultural beings

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People get most of what they need from ___ ___, instead of directly from the physical world around them.

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each other

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The finding that kids who watch too much violent TV programs become more aggressive as adults is explained in terms of ___ influences

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Societal

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Being cultural, and thus being cultural, is a ____ strategy.

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Biological