AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -evolutionary psychology, the study of behaviour, thought, and feeling as viewed through the lens of evolutionary biology. Evolutionary psychologists presume all human behaviours reflect the influence of physical and psychological predispositions that helped human ancestors survive and reproduce.

Detailed explanation-2: -Evolutionary psychology aims the lens of modern evolutionary theory on the workings of the human mind. It focuses primarily on psychological adaptations: mechanisms of the mind that have evolved to solve specific problems of survival or reproduction.

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: -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-5: -Evolutionary developmental psychology posits that this is because individuals inherit a species-typical environment, as well as a species-typical genome. Development follows a species-typical pattern given that individuals within the species grow up in environments that are similar to those of their ancestors.