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23 Cards in this Set
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The broader term for mind.
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psyche
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The physical world around us, including its laws and processes.
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Nature
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The advocates of nature in psychology turn to ___ ___ to understand behavior patterns.
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Evolutionary Theory
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The process whereby those members of a species that survive and reproduce most effectively are the ones that pass along their genes to future generations.
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Natural Selection
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Producing babies that survive long enough to reproduce.
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Reproduction
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A new gene or combination of genes.
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Mutation
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Being social improves what two things?
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Survival and Reproduction
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Larger brains lead to?
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Larger/Complex social groups
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Animals that seek connections to others and prefer to live, work, and play with other members of their species.
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Social Animals
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The view that evolution shaped the human psyche so as to enable humans to create and take part in culture
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Cultural Animals
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The practical way of doing things.
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Praxis
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An information-based system that includes shared ideas and common ways of doing things.
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Culture
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The idea that the mind has two different processing systems. (What are the two?)
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Duplex Mind: (conscious and automatic)
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The part of the mind outside of consciousness that performs simple operations
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Automatic Systems
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The part of the mind that performs complex operations
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Conscious Systems
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The inner processes serve what?
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Interpersonal Functions
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_____ is a major battleground between nature and culture.
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Self-interest
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____ is probably the most basic conflict in the human psyche.
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Self-interest
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____ ____ has not favored caring about the distant future.
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Natural Selection
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The future is more important to ____ _____ than to other animals.
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cultural beings
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People get most of what they need from ___ ___, instead of directly from the physical world around them.
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each other
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The finding that kids who watch too much violent TV programs become more aggressive as adults is explained in terms of ___ influences
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Societal
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Being cultural, and thus being cultural, is a ____ strategy.
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Biological
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