EVOLUTIONIST PSYCHOLOGY
cod. 17045

Academic year 2007/08
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
hub:
course unit
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Course unit content

Evolutionary Psychology. 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 studies. 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 anf group-living. Homme sauvahe and infant sauvage. 

Full programme

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Bibliography

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

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