Psych 2310 1st Edition Lecture 18 Outline of Last Lecture I. What attracts people to each other romantically?II. What is love?III. How do we keep love from dyingOutline of Current Lecture i. Genesii. Cultureiii. GenderCurrent Lecturei. Genesa. Natural selection= Evolutionary process where nature automatically selects traits that best enable organisms to survive and reproduce in environmentsi. This is still going onb. Mankind has imposed artificial selection on naturec. Evolutionary psychology= Uses natural selection to formulate and test hypotheses abut human nature and behaviori. Think humans all have the same “software”1. Incest taboos2. Status concerns3. Reciprocity normsThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best Used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.4. Fat/salt food preference5. Sensitivity to being cheatedd. Mind is like a Swiss army knife. We have developed many different functions overtime.e. Evolutionary questions. These are the answers that people usually have because they help people survive.i. Would you save your child or someone else’s? Someone else’s. Want yourgenes to pass on.ii. Would you save your five year old or one year old? Five year old. They have more chance of surviving.iii. Would you save your 40 year old or 20 year old? 20 year old they have a longer time left to live.iv. Would a mom’s parent or dad’s parent be happier at the birth of a child? A mom’s parent because they know it is theirs.f. Traditional social psychology says that humans are a blank slate. They are all-purpose learners who start out with little “software”g. Cross cultural psychologists believe that people are more different than previously believedii. Culturea. Culture= Enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions developed and shared by large groups of people and transmitted through generationsb. Collectivist vs. individualistic culturesc. Evolutionary psychology emphasizes species typical universalsd. Cultural psychology emphasizes diversityiii. Gendera. We can see how the different types of psychology play out in gender differences between culturesi. Men and women have many things in commonii. Things they don’t have in common1. Social dominance2. Aggression3. Independence vs. connectedness4. If they prefer older or younger matesa. Men prefer younger because they show more potential for reproduction women prefer older because they show moresecurity in raising the childb. Sexual selection process= Process by which gender differences evolve due to within-sex competition. Genders polarize because of evolutionc. Levels of parent involvementi. Women= Nine months, feeding, about 15 years of careii. Men= Can be very little, even just five minutesd. Traditional psych says gender differences are learned not innatei. In every culture men are socialized to be providers and women are socialized to be care-takersii. Why are these the same in every culture?1. The way the bodies and minds have evolved lend the genders to these
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