SOP 3015 Ch.3 FIU Questions and Answers 2025 with complete solution

SOP 3015 Ch.3 FIU Questions and Answers 2025 with complete solution

1. Biological: Modern evolutionary perspectives focus on influences

that play a significant role in human development.

2. Ethology: Scientific study of the evolutionary basis of behavior and how that

behavior contributes to the species survival and development.

3. Natural Selection: Individuals with characteristics that promote adaptation to the

environment will survive, reproduce and pass these traits along while those who lack adaptive

characteristics eventually die out.

4. Experiences: Ethologists recognize that humans are recognized by their

.

5. Sensitive periods: Period of time that's optimal for the development of a partic-ular

capability or behavior

6. Criticisms of modern evolutionary perspectives: -Very hard to test and isn't

falsifiable

-Often retrospective

-Predictions and conclusions have often differed from actual behaviors

-Prone of cultural bias

7. Behavioral Genetics: Aspects of ones individual personality=interactions be-tween

genetics and environmental influences
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