Psych 303 Exam Review 8
· Products of Evol Process: Adaptation – a mechanism that evolves because it provokes a solution to a specific problem; Adaptation by-products – aspects of an adaptation that do not directly contribute to a solution – they incidentally co-vary with the adaptation; Evolutionary Noise – random variations – difference in characteristics that are inherited and yet seem to serve no function towards adaptability
· Evol Domain Specificity – each adaptation has evolved to address a specific problem
· Evol Numerousness – because adaptive mechanisms are domain-specific, we have numerous mechanisms and we need them to address each additional problem we have consistently faced
· Evol Functionality – each adaptive mechanism evolved to accomplish a particular goal
· Deductive/Inductive – see notes
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