LS15 REVIEW SESSION FINAL EXAM

Happiness, why is the rate and direction of change more important than absolute levels? - Answer--Making progress toward our goals makes us happy, absolute levels have very little effect on our happiness. -Once we reach our goal, our happiness does not last long. How does happiness relate to material acquisitions? - Answer--Once we reach our goal, our happiness does not last long. -Ex: The lottery winner was happy for a while and then their happiness level went back to where it was before. -Ex: People from under developed countries find happiness in acquiring basic items from more civilized countries, since they are getting something not present int their environment; thus, they are progressing. -Ex: Acquisitive desires exist in the Yanomomo, a professor noted this when he went there and these civilians were taking his stuff when he left his luggage in the room (unaccompanied). Using an example, describe the interplay between culture and biology. - Answer--Culture can free us from biology. -There are ideas, customs, etc that are not passed through biology (genes), so these ideas can be passed form people to different people through our culture. -Someone else's idea saves you from your way of doing something. -Genetic info can only be passed from generation to generation, parent to offspring. -But culture allows us to pass information to anyone. -Ex: you don't have to know how to create a lightbulb or a shoe, but there are people in our society who can create it for you. What's the fundamental reproductive equation? - Answer-SEX = PREGNANCY = BABIES = MATERNAL CHILD CARE= LOSS OF FEMAL ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY= LOSS OF FEMALE POLITICAL POWER What does the fundamental reproductive equation reveal about culture and biology? - Answer--It reveals that culture can free us from our biological constraints and make equality possible How does culture-biology interplay illustrate by constraint learning? - Answer--We cannot learn everything, some are limited by our biology.