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PSYC 482

Mind in Evolution

Evolutionary thinking has spawned several distinct schools within psychology and cognitive science, each with its own assumptions about which mental phenomena are best explained by selection pressures and ancestral environments — this elective is a critical tour of those schools rather than a defense of any one. You'll work through readings spanning comparative cognition and evolutionary psychology, moving week by week from perception and memory up to language, mate choice, emotion, and consciousness, with quizzes, individual work, and a report-plus-presentation as the main deliverables. It pairs well with cognition and biopsychology coursework, and its real value is teaching you to interrogate evolutionary claims — when they actually explain something versus when they're just-so stories dressed up as science.

Credit3ECTS5FacultyFaculty of Economics, Administrative, and Social SciencesBölümPsychologyPrePSYC 200 and PSYC 230 and PSYC 240

Önerilen kaynaklar 3 kitap

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Zorunlu
No textbook. Readings consist of select chapters from various sources.
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Önerilen
Comparative Cognition
Mary C. Olmstead Valerie A. Kuhlmeier
2015 · Cambridge University Press
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Önerilen
Evolutionary Psychology (5th Edition)
Lance Workman
2025 · Cambridge University Press

Haftalık müfredat 14 hafta

Hafta 1
Introduction and Course Mechanics
Hafta 2
What Is Evolution? A Brief Introduction
Hafta 3
The Evolution of Perceptual Systems
Hafta 4
Attention and Its Evolutionary Roots
Hafta 5
Learning and Evolutionary Preparedness
Hafta 6
Comparative Approaches to Memory Evolution
Hafta 7
Language
Hafta 8
The Evolution of Concept Formation and Categorization
Hafta 9
Higher Cognitive Abilities in Evolution: Causal Inference and Reasoning
Hafta 10
Evolution of Sociocognitive Skills
Hafta 11
The Evolution of Mate Choice & Mating Systems
Hafta 12
The Evolutionary Roots of Emotions & Moods
Hafta 13
Is Consciousness Everywhere? An Evolutionary Perspective
Hafta 14
Course Review and Wrap-Up

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Geçmiş GPA dağılımı 13 dönem · ort. 3.06

DönemCourse CPA
2024-2025 Fall 2.93 1 sec · 32 öğr
2023-2024 Fall 3.03 1 sec · 20 öğr
2022-2023 Fall 3.00 1 sec · 24 öğr
2021-2022 Fall 3.00 1 sec · 65 öğr
2020-2021 Fall 2.66 1 sec · 18 öğr
2020-2021 Spring 3.24 1 sec · 10 öğr
2019-2020 Fall 2.83 1 sec · 65 öğr
2019-2020 Spring 3.59 1 sec · 59 öğr
2018-2019 Spring 3.57 1 sec · 70 öğr
2016-2017 Spring 3.23 1 sec · 65 öğr

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Students must take the midterm exam to be eligible for the final exam.

Hocalar 1 bu dönem · 5 geçmiş

Bu dönem (2025-2026 Spring) · 1 section
Kaan Kerman
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Robert Ian Bowers, Burcu Tekeş, Laith Al Shawaf, David Michael Lewis, Radu Bogdan