AP PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGYS HISTORY APPROACHES

PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS HISTORY

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Define:Evolutionary Approach
A
explores how behavior have adapted for survival
B
explores the emphasis of race, gender, and age on behavior
C
looks for unconscious conflicts to explain behavior
D
believes that people are basically healthy and happy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Evolutionary psychology assumes that human behaviour is being shaped, indeed determined, by processes of natural selection: those modes of behaviour that favour the replication of the genome will preferentially survive.

Detailed explanation-2: -Evolutionary approach uses evolutionary ideas such as adaptation, reproduction, and natural selection as the basis for explaining specific human behaviors.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to evolutionary psychologists, patterns of behavior have evolved through natural selection, in the same way that physical characteristics have evolved. Because of natural selection, adaptive behaviors, or behaviors that increase reproductive success, are kept and passed on from one generation to the next.

Detailed explanation-4: -The evolutionary perspective relates to the way that cognitive behaviors go through the process of natural selection just as the human body has done. 2. This perspective also considers the way that emotions, memory, perspective and more have been used in history and have evolved in the current era.

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