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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
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