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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Homo line brain expands rapidly | 1.2 million years ago |
| Neanderthals went extinct; Homo sapiens arrive | 30 thousand years ago |
| Freud's sexuality | diving force for human behavior |
| Freud's life-preservative instincts | needs for air, food, water, shelter, and fear of snakes, heights, dangerous humans |
| Freud's sexual instincts | reproduction |
| Homo erectus (Asia), Homo neanderthalensis (Europe), Homo sapiens (Africa) | 100 thousand years ago |
| multiregional continuity theory ( MRC) | different groups of humans in different parts of world evolved in parallel and mated |
| Out of Africa theory (OOA) | humans evolved in Africa and migrated during last 100 thousand years |
| anatomical evidence (support OOA) | Neanderthals and Homo sapiens differed dramatically |
| archeological evidence | Homo sapiens "creative explosion" 40 thousand years ago (support OOA) |
| genetic evidence | Neanderthal and Homo sapiens lineages diverged more than 400 thousand years ago; Neanderthal DNA similar worldwide; little human DNA variation (support OOA) |
| William James | Principles of Psychology (1890) |
| James many instincts | faculty of acting to produce certain ends without foresight of ends (evolved through natural selection) |
| behaviorist instinct | general ability to learn |
| infinite cultural variability | myth |
| Garcia effect | irradiation aversion to taste, but not sight or hearing |
| behaviorism laws of learning violations | animals predisposed to learn some things and not others easily ; environment not sole determinant of behavior |
| cognitive revolution | violation of laws of learning, Chomsky's "language organ", information processing metaphor |
| information processing | input accepted, transformation procedures, structures operated on, output produced |
| information processing hardware | brain neurobiology |
| behaviorist domain generality | replaced by domain-general cognitive mechanisms (privileged information classes missing) |
| combinatorial explosion | rapid proliferation of response options by combining two or more sequential possibilities |
| combinatorial explosion necessitates | special programming |
| evolutionary psychology provides | brain designed to solve problems of survival and reproduction |