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Evolutionary Theory

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show Charles Darwin's grandfather. He proposed evolution as inheritance of acquired characteristics, and that all traits develop from a need.  
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Jean Baptist Lamarck (1744-1829) proposed several mechanisms as driving forces of evolution. Describe progressionism.   show
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Describe Lamarck's idea of Transmutation of Species.   show
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How does the use/disuse model work?   show
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What is uniformitarianism?   show
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show With Captain Robert Fitz-Roy. He read "Princples of Geology" by Charles Lyell & "Essay on the Principle of Population" Thomas Malthus. Sailed to the Galapagos Islands (Fall, 1835)  
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show Surplus offspring leads to struggle for survival. Individual differences with survival values are passed to later generations (i.e., adaptive traits).  
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Darwin's "Descent of Man" (1871) was about?   show
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What was the main purpose of "Expressions of Emotions in Man and Animals?" (1872)   show
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show Allowed Darwin to take pictures of psychotic patients making emotional expressions & compared them to healthy humans. Found there was little to no difference between the two populations. Facial expressions in response to emotions are not socially learned  
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What would Emil Kraepelin most likely attribute a patient’s depression to?   show
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show Characteristics that were strengthened through use by the parent  
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Charles Darwin's theory about evolution could be considered as a form of inheritance of aquired characteristics?   show
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Uniformitarianism, as a geological theory, was conceptually _____ with Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection because it suggests that _______.   show
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According to Cajal, intelligence is best predicted by   show
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Who would provide data in Titchener’s introspection studies?   show
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What did Kraepelin conclude about substance abuse?   show
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show Innate.  
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show Male infants not more variable on height, weight, cranial measures. Male achievements results from greater vocational options.  
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show Continuous development in people  
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show Survival of the fittest. ~Social Darwinism - application of evolutionary theory to human society. "Principles of Psychology" (1855)  
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Describe Francis Galton's contributions to the application of evolutionary psychology.   show
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Galton's "English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture" (1876)   show
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Galton's "Inquiry into Human Faculty and its development"   show
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