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Test Format

• Identifications (Two will be on actual test) 35
  35
• Write a solid 4-7 sentence paragraph that
  explains the concept, and more importantly,
  explains the relevance of the concept in this
  course.
• 1.      genotype phenotype
• 2.      argument from incredulity
• 3.      single-step vs. cumulative selection
• 4.      survival of the fittest
• 5.      tabula rasa

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• Essays (Two will be on actual test) 70
  70Write 2-3 content-rich paragraphs with clear
  references to the readings and clear explanations
  of your points. Strong organization and topic
  sentences count. Be sure to dig deep into the
  actual facts or argument that are being made
  rather than just mentioning an idea in passing.
   1. Critique how atomism and other forces in
  modernity influence the way we think about the
  self. Be sure to explain what we mean by
  atomism, specific ways it has influenced
  psychology, and the advantages or disadvantages
  of this influence.
• 2. Explain how Evolutionary Psychology adds to
  the traditional approach to psychology.
• 3. Explain how the evolutionary paradigm itself
  can explain why we can have difficulty making
  sense of evolution.
• 4.Identify at least 3 main points that Dawkins
  makes in defense of evolutionary theory. Be sure
  to explain the perception or objection he is
  trying to address, and the strategy he uses to
  address it.

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Key Evolutionary Principles (rev. 2/19/2004)

• Variation, Selection, Inheritability
• Chance iteration scaffolding
• Functionalism Argument from design
• Order without design
• order from simple principles
• simple building blocks
• Exercises
• Metabolism
• Flight path
• Recursive thinking limits of intuition

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Wired to Misunderstand

• Analogy Raccoons pre-disposed to
  misunderstand sugar cubes.
• Brains pre-disposed to misunderstand Darwinism
• Equating evolution with blind chance
• Brains built for different time-scales think in
  lifetimes
• Assuming design requires designer exp. of craft
• Can cognitive errors have been adaptive???
• Reconstructive memory traffic accident studies
• Illusory correlates presuming causation
• Fundamental attribution bias
• Liking people more similar to you
• Jealousy
• Possessiveness
• Argument from incredulity?? Why not?

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Chance vs. Cumulative Selection

• Complexity
• Design that performance advantageous function
• Functionalism
• Self-organization
• Design without Designer (Order for free)
• 60 rule ? Triangle ? Pyramid ? Sets of Pyramids
  ? Tetrahedron
• Equidistance ? patterns of motion, stable (but
  always unique) configurations
• Flying Geese ? simple rule, pattern emerges.
• Hierarchical Reductionism
• Nested Russian Dolls
• Composition of Human Body
• Molecules to Elephants (60 to Tetrahedron)

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Simulation Selection vs. Cumulative Selection

• Dice Rolling Exercise Gambling for Sight
• Rolling dice for sight
• Die 1 light vs. dark
• Die 2 large motion
• Die 3 depth perception
• Die 4 small motion
• Die 5 colors
• Chance Roll until you get 5 sixes
• Cumulative Selection Lock each 6, roll
  remaining die

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Designing Bats

• Echolocation vs. Visualization
• I cant imagine how that would work.
• Youre seeing things, that could never work.
• I dont see how that could work.
• Youve got to be out of your mind.

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Psychology Evolution

• Conditions for evolution Variation, Selection,
  Retention (Inheritability)
• Feedback Time
• Not survival of the fittest

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Self-organizing order The 60 degree rule

• Wholes emerge from addition of simple rules
  Order without design
• New dimensions are created
• Freedom Forced-moves

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Homologous Forms Common Ancestor?
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Homologous Forms Common Ancestor?