LS 15 Final Study Guide with Complete Solutions
Why is the rate and direction of change more important than absolute
levels for happiness? And how does this relate to material acquisition? -
Answer️️ -Making progress towards our goal makes us happy, absolute
levels have little effect on our...
Why is the rate and direction of change more important than absolute
levels for happiness? And how does this relate to material acquisition? -
Answer✔️✔️-Making progress towards our goal makes us happy, absolute
levels have little effect on our happiness
ex. the winner of the lottery felt happier when first presented with the
money but when later asked if he/she was happy the level was the same as
it was before winning the money
Why are emotions designed to be less permanent than they feel? -
Answer✔️✔️-Emotions are brain states designed to alter our behavior, once
we reach our goal our happiness fades
Using example describe interplay between culture and biology -
Answer✔️✔️-Culture is a non-genetic transmission of information while
biology refers to information passed on through evolution. Culture can free
us from biology by teaching us information that can be passed on to
anyone not just to offspring through evolution
ex. You don't know how to make a shoe but people in society can make it
for you
What is the fundamental reproductive equation? And what does it reveal
about culture and biology. - Answer✔️✔️-sex=pregnancy=babies=maternal
child care=loss of female economic opportunity=loss of female political
power
This restraint gives us different results for males vs. females and shows
that culture can modify what is likely to happen
How is the culture/biology interplay illustrated by constrained learning? -
Answer✔️✔️-we cannot learn everything some things are limited by biology
due to constrained learning. better at learning things that have
evolutionary significance. Sauce Bearnaise Phenomenon
Ex: Mice have "genetically coded hypothesis" that automatically says "if I
feel sick it must be something I ate".
Gave two experiments: Mice were able to learn not to drink water b/c of
possible correlation
1. Mice drank water--> noise & lights--> electric shock
2. Mice drank water--> weird taste--> nausea induced by x-rays
Changed experiments: Mice were unable to learn not to drink water b/c no
biological relationship between them
What is the EEA? And why is it important for us to be aware of it? -
Answer✔️✔️-Environment of Evolutionary Adaptiveness
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