FSU SOP 3004 Exam 1 Latest 2024/2025 Updated Questions and Answers Guaranteed 100% Success.

Evolutionary Perspective - social behaviors are rooted in unintentional ways that helped our ancestors survive & reproduce - NATURAL SELECTION, MOTIVATION, REPRODUCTION - GENES/ADAPTATIONS Theory - scientific explanation based on theories based on observations; unify findings and help guide future research Four Major Theoretical Perspectives (all correct) - 1. Sociocultural 2. Evolutionary 3. Social Learning 4. Social Cognitive Sociocultural Perspective - prejudices, preferences, & political persuasions are affected by factors that work at group level such as nationality, social class, current historical trends; - SOCIAL NORMS, OUR CULTURE Natural Selection - process by which animals pass characteristics useful for survival on to their offspring - changes in POPULATION 3 Principles of Evolutionary Perspective - 1) Variation (random) 2) Heritability (must be able to be passed on) 3) Differential survival & reproductive success Misconceptions of Evolutionary Perspective - 1. Evolution isn't purposeful.2. Traits are random (beneficial, detrimental, neural) & don't appear in response to need. 3. Environment (physical or social) plays role in determine which traits are + or - Misconception Ex: "The male peacock evolved a large colorful tail to attract females." - WRONG - "Male peacocks w/ large colorful tails were more successful at finding mates, which led to large colorful tails becoming more numerous in the population." - RIGHT Adaptations - - characteristics that are well suited for a particular environment - there are universal patterns, but some things are byproducts Adaptation Ex: Innate Fears - children and dogs fear snakes Possible Motivations - Acquire resources, mating, child-rearing, protection What do evolutionary social psychologists study? - Translational questions: - human behavior patterns vs. animal? - how environmental patterns affect people from different cultures Biological questions: - hormones affect on social behavior - social situations affect on physiological responses Naturalistic Fallacy - - is to ought - what is natural is good/how things should be Naturalistic Fallacy Ex: - "Bc people are genetically different and endowed with different innate abilities and talents, they ought to be treated differently." Moralistic Fallacy - - ought to is - assumption that what ought to be is what is -- that the undesirable opposes nature.Moralistic Fallacy Ex: - "Bc everybody ought to be treated equally, there are no innate genetic differences between people." Social psychologists DON'T claim: - 1. People ought to act a certain way 2. People can't change their behavior from their instincts 3. Everything has an evolutionary explanation 4. Don't prove how ancestors lived, explain why certain behavior patterns now exist