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1. Conjunction fallacy

1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryIndividual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualitiesDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)the analysis of the smaller features to build up to a complete perception

2. Features of Fodorian Modularity

3. theories of the emergence of humans

the analysis of the smaller features to build up to a complete perceptionDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)Individual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualities1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theory

4. Bottom up processing

Individual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualities1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theorythe analysis of the smaller features to build up to a complete perceptionDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)

5. Freud

6. John Locke

7. Ecological rationality

Domain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryIndividual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualitiesProcess of evolved mechanisms utilising ecological structure to facilitate adaptive problem solving - We are better at solving natural problems that have been encountered over evolutionary time than we are at solving more recent artificial problems

8. Massive modularity

There are no general computer programs, only specific ones. Specific problems require specific solutions1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)Individual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualities

9. The Savannah hypothesis

10. Francis Galton (nature)

1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)Individual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualitiesCoined nature vs nurture - biological determinism - we are merely an expression of our genes - eugenics - trying to breed certain traits

11. Natural selection

12. key features of evolutionary adaptations

13. Ecological structure

14. Socio-meter theory

Individual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualities1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)Proposes that self esteem functions as a subjective indicator or gauge of other people's evaluations - An increase in self esteem signals an increase in the degree to which one is socially included and accepted by others

15. Darwin's theory of sexual selection

1. Intrasexual competition - same sex for opposite 2. Intersexual selection - preferential mate choiceIndividual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualities1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)

16. Aggression as a solution to adaptive problems

Co-opt the resources of others - Defence against attacks - Inflict costs on intra-sexual rivals - Negotiate status and power hierarchies - Deter rival from future aggression - Deter long term mates from sexual infidelityDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)Individual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualities1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theory

17. Top down processing

Individual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualitiesa progression from the whole to the elements1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)

18. Serotonin and dominance

Individual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualitiesDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryThe neurotransmitter serotonin joins testosterone as one of the brain chemicals responsible for mediating one's position in the status hierarchy - Serotonin facilites emotion regulation - Male monkeys with higher social rank nearly twice as high in blood serotonin levels as low-ranking males - Blood serotonin level diminishes if status lost

19. Five evolutionary theories of altruism

Individual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualities1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryInclusive fitness - Reciprocal altruism - Indirect reciprocity - Need-based transfer - Costly signallingDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)

20. Tactics of hierarchy negotiation

21. The cognitive revolution

Individual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualities1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)Mind acts as computer - information processor - software - consists of a number of modules

22. Noam Chomsky

humans must be born pre-programmed (hard wired) to learn language LAD1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)Individual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualities

23. Strategies for promoting cooperation

Domain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)Individual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualities1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryEnlarge the shadow of the future: There is more incentive to cooperate in ongoing relationships - Teach reciprocity: Makes it more difficult for exploiters to thrive - Insist on no more than equity: Promoting equity elicits cooperation - Respond quickly to provocation: Retaliation shows that there are consequences for exploiting your good will - Cultivate a personal reputation as a reciprocator: This will lead others to seek you out for mutual gain, whereas exploitative individuals are likely to be shunned -

24. human evolution

1.2 mil years ago brains of homo line more than doubled - related to tool making, tool use, communication, cooperative hunting, social competition - bigger brains, bodies, muscles - their disappearance coincided with modern homo sapiensIndividual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualities1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)

25. Konrad Lorenz (imprinting)

Individual ignore wider category and instead focus on subgroup with narrower qualitiesthe ethology movement - Ethology = behaviour from an evolutionary perspective (imprinting)1. Multi-regional continuity theory 2. Out of Africa theoryDomain specificity - Mandatory operation - Limited central accessibility - Fast processing - Information encapsulation - Shallow ouputs - Fixed neural architecture - Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns - Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing (regularity of development of modules)

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