Psych 303 Exam Review 7
· Brain Asymmetry/Affective Style: positive emotions à left hemisphere, negative emotions à right hemisphere; greater activity in the right hemisphere; brain asymmetry may show a predisposition to mood disorders; depressed patients showed more resting right side activity than a non-depressed
· Natural Selection/Sexual Selection: natural – survival selection, the processes whereby characteristics and behaviors that allow an organism to survive and reproduce are selected and those that do not are weeded out; sexual – characteristics that increase an organism’s chances of mating are selected and passed along (two factos include intrasexual competition and interseuxal selection)
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· Genes and Inclusive Fitness: Differential gene reproduction – different organisms will have more or less repro success based on adaptive behaviors; Inclusive Fitness Theory – inclusive means behaviors that not only enhance personal reproduction but also the reproduction of genetic relatives… the more closely related the relative, the more likely you will take risks to share their survival
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