About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 147. Chapters: Developmental psychology, Evolutionary psychology, Personality psychology, Individual differences psychology, Psychometrics, Industrial and organizational psychology, Critical psychology, Medical psychology, Educational psychology, Behavior analysis of child development, Positive psychology, Clinical psychology, Applied behavior analysis, Occupational health psychology, Social psychology, Transpersonal psychology, Subfields of psychology, Behavioral neuroscience, International psychology, Psychophysics, Mathematical psychology, Abnormal psychology, Neuropsychology, Consulting psychology, Comparative psychology, Experimental psychology, Conservation psychology, Social neuroscience, Adaptive comparative judgement, Music psychology, Systems psychology, Legal psychology, Ecopsychology, Cultural psychology, Black psychology, Phenomenology, Integral psychology, Psychology of science, Cardiac psychology, Political psychology, Media psychology, Ponerology, Photo psychology, Personnel psychology, National Adult Reading Test, Performance psychology, Liberation psychology, Morphopsychology, Theoretical psychology, Anomalistic psychology, Correctional psychology. Excerpt: Evolutionary psychology (EP) examines psychological traits - such as memory, perception, or language - from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations, that is, the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection. Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms, such as the heart, lungs, and immune system, is common in evolutionary biology. Evolutionary psychology applies the same thinking to psychology, arguing that the mind has a modular structure similar to that of the body, with different modular adaptations serving different functions. Evolutionary psychologists argu...
