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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.

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.

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.

What is most attractive about a woman to men?

Signs of Fertility: Younger, breasts, hourglass shape

What is most attractive about a man to a woman?

Wealth, Ambition, Power

What is the main goal of human beings, to evolutionary psychologists.

Plant the seed!

Who is more aggressive? Men or Women?

Men

Classical Conditioning

Learning to associate two events. when one occurs, another is expected to occur.

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.

Stimulus generalization

fear of specific stimulus




ex: seeing snake=pain

Unconditioned Stimulus

example: food in Pavlov's study



Unconditioned Response

example: salivation



Conditioned Stimulus

example: bell

Conditioned Response

example: salivation

Punishment

Opposite of Reinforcement


(an attempt to make a behavior decrease)

Positive Punishment

Inflicting Negative Stimuli When behavior occurs

Negative Punishment

Taking away positive stimuli when behavior occurs

Reinforcement

An attempt to increase a behavior

Positive Reinforcement

Adding pleasing stimuli when behavior occurs to increase the behavior

Negative Reinforcement

Taking away negative stimuli when behavior occurs to increase the behavior

Thorndike's Law of effect

you can do things to make a behavior increase or decrease

Fixed Ratio

reinforcer is applied after a certain amount of behaviors has occured


ex: spanking child ever 3 times he cusses

Fixed Interval

Applying the reinforcer after a specific amount of time


example: Getting a raise ever other year

Variable Ratio

Random amounts of time you don't make your bed, you get spanked

Variable Interval

Random amounts of time before reinforcement takes place

Mirror Neurons

Same neurons going off in your brain from seeing someone else in pain

Serial position effect

you can only remember the the first and last bits of information

capacity of short term memory

can only hold a few bits of information briefly


example: seven digits of a phone number

longterm memory

basically limitless

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

Retrieval cues

something that happens that makes you recall a memory from long term memory

Confirmation bias

searching for evidence that supports what we believed would happen, and ignoring evidence that disproves what we expected

How to calculatate

mental age/chronological age x 100