Descartes
Mind-body
problem
Monism,
Dualism
Materialism
Emergentism
Functionalism
Phineas Guage
Problem
of localization of function
Phrenology
Phantom
limb
Unilateral
neglect
Voodoo
death
Richter’s
rat studies
Parasympathetic
rebound
The
death of Elvis, vagus nerve, and the
mind-body
problem
Walter
Cannon
Eugenics
Galton
Vagus nerve
phrenology
Nature-nurture
issue
Behavior
genetics
Nativism
Empiricism
Locke,
Kant
Tabula rosa
plieotropy
Genotype
and phenotype
DNA
chromosome, genes
allels
meiosis
mutations
sex-linked characteristics
SNP's
Coat
color in Siamese cats and agouti mice
PKU
Huntington’s
disease
Caspi and Moffit
study of 5-Htt transporter gene and susceptibility mental problems
Heritability
(h2) – also know formula and how to calculate from twin data.
MZ
and DZ twins
Adoption
studies
Evidence
the heritability increases with age for some traits.
Social
class differences in heritability
Know
the rough heritabilities for things like
basic
personality traits, IQ, social interests, etc.
Plomin and Daniels study “Why are
kids from the
same family so different?”
Know
the basic premises of Darwinian evolution
Bee
mimic orchid
Lamarkian evolution
Weizman’s mouse tail experiment
Salt
and pepper moths
“fitness”
altruistic
behavior – how can it evolve
reciprocal
altruism
kin
selection
sociobiology
Trivers
E.O.
Wilson
Standard
Social Science Model
balloon
flies
What
is the difference between natural and sexual selection
paleoanthopology
hominid
chordate
encephalization quotient
Know
the general path of human evolution (“human family tree”)
(e.g.,
Taung Child, Australopithicus afarensis, Paranthropus,
Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Neanderthals,
etc.)
difference in body/skull of
modern humans and chimps
Evolution
of mate selection strategies
Evolutionary
psychology
General assumptions of Ev. Psych.
Infantacide in langurs
-- Hrdy
Domain
specifity (e.g., learning and phobias as an
example
of this)
EEA
Theory
of Mind (and autism)
Why
do males have nipples?
Problem of determining if something is "adaptive"
Hamilton
Parental
investment theory
Buss
studies of gender differences
Thornhill
and Palmer Rape Hypothesis
Naturalistic
fallacy
What
did Dawkins mean by the term “The Blind Watchmaker”?
Noam Chomsky
The
Free Rider Problem
Tit-for-tat
strategy
Parent-offspring
conflict (e.g. conflict over weaning of kids)
How
is body symmetry related to mate selection?
.70
waist hip ratio
Gender
differences in sexual strategies and mate selection.
What
is a meme?
Neutral
theory
Dawkins -- "virus of the mind"
and religious belief
Criticisms
of evolutionary psychology