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EVOLUTIONIST PSYCHOLOGY
cod. 17045

Academic year 2008/09
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Psicologia generale (M-PSI/01)
Field
Psicologia generale e fisiologica
Type of training activity
Characterising
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
5 credits
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Course unit content

History and new theoretical paradigm of evolutionary psychology. Animal and human psychology in Hobhouse, Lloyd Morgan, Romanes, Thorndike, Lashley, Lorenz, Yerkes, Kohler, Ladygina-Kots, Eibl-Eibesfeldt. Evolutionary theory of Darwin. Animal and human ethological study. Theory of mind and sexual desire. Choice of mating partners and selection in relation to sex. Origin and evolution of language. Man, chimpanzee and sign language. Self consciousness, conflict, parent-child relationship and group living. Home sauvage and infant sauvage.

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Bibliography

Tartabini, A. Psicologia evoluzionistica. Milano, McGraw-Hill. 2003
Tartabini, A. L'uomo scimmia. Milano, McGraw-Hill, 2004.

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