Compare the evolutionary and the social cognitive perspectives?
Sunday, 28 July 2019
These are two major perspectives in social psychology. The Evolutionary Perspective, as the name suggests, has developed out of a belief in genetics. This perspective claims that human behavior is morphed out of inherited learning primarily. In doing so the perspective takes a lot of support from biological theories. Put crudely, someone with an angrier
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Explain how evolutionary psychology can help us explain social behavior?
Sunday, 21 July 2019
Human behavior in any challenging social scenario can almost always be resolved into a basic option between fight and flight. This binary perspective has evolved from thousands of years of conditioning and experience. Actions and courses taken by us collectively over years have helped us form a learning, that has morphed into instincts. Subtle, subconscious
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