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| What's the difference between motivatin and emotion? |
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| It's confusing because they usually occur together. But an emotion is the subjective experience of a reaction to a stimulus and motivation ascivates goal-directed behavior such as hunger, thirst, sexuality, escape etc. |
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| What is the function of motivation? |
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It is for survival. It is the initiation of adaptive behaviors
cars and computers can't do it. |
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| What famous scientist came up with a pretty well known explanation for motivation? |
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| Within the discipline of evoloutionary psychology, what are 2 possible explainations for individual differences? |
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| 1. Natural variation around the ideal mean, and 2. Mutations |
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| What two pieces of evidence does EP give for sex differences |
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| Universiality, uniques predictions |
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| Who should care whether or not their child looks similar to them? |
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| How does EP justify human phenomena such as altruism? |
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| Inclusinve fitness, reciprocal altruism |
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| Learning theory, in contrast to EP, says that the reason for sex differences is: |
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| males and females are physically different, so the needs of the species are delegated to the one who is physically fit for the job. e.g. the man hunts because he is bigger and stronger and the female feeds the babies because she has brests |
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