what is evolutionary psychology and EEA?

Answer 1

Evolutionary psychology attempts to explain psychological capabilities such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, i.e., as the functional products of natural selection. It is focused on how evolution has shaped the mind.

Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA) refers to the early environment in which the evolution would have occurred.
Some critics of evolutionary psychology claim that because little is known about the Pleistocene, the evolutionary context in which humans developed (including population size, structure, lifestyle, eating habits, habitat, and more), there is little basis on which evolutionary psychology may operate. Most EP research is thus confined to certainties about the past, such as pregnancies only occurring in women, and that humans lived in groups.

Answer 2

Environment Of Evolutionary Adaptedness

Answer 3

Evolutionary psychology (abbreviated ev-psych or EP) is a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, i.e., as the functional products of natural selection. The purpose of this approach is to bring the functional way of thinking about biological mechanisms such as the immune system into the field of psychology, and to approach psychological mechanisms in a similar way. In short, evolutionary psychology is focused on how evolution has shaped the mind. Though applicable to any organism with a nervous system, most research in evolutionary psychology focuses on humans.

The term environment of evolutionary adaptedness, often abbreviated EEA, was coined by John Bowlby as part of attachment theory.

Answer 4

So... you actually expect to find someone well-versed in evolutionary psychology here? Or even POORLY versed??? You're a LOT more optimistic than I am. I'm just gonna take a stab at it, though, and say that it's of benefit for a society for its members to do "good" things, that benefit the whole society as opposed to only the individual. That implies some kind of enforcement, and that, on a primitive level at least, implies belief in the existence of a deity imposing the rules, and doing the "enforcing," even if only through the agency of the other members of the society; it's a great excuse for SOME kind of rules to be imposed, at least until the need for rules becomes self-evident. A society whose members do that is going to do better than a society whose members are (comparatively) self-centered, it seems to me, so that society would thrive, and by comparison, other societies/groups would not do as well. It's my best guess, and it's free, so take it for what it's worth :-)

Answer 5

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Just because a belief is wrong doesn't mean it's useless. Religion offers a banner under which people can unite to pursue tasks. Atheism may be the saner approach to reality, but as an atheist I can tell you that getting atheists to agree on things is like herding cats. We lack organization because there's nothing binding us together. A religion, on the other hand, offers people an ideal to use to get together and accomplish tasks they couldn't achieve alone. There are other ways that DON'T involve lying to the masses, but a religion's the quick, easy way to do it. There's also the part where it's sort of a natural extension of our innate understanding of cause and effect. We see that things happen, and we see that things cause them, and we see that a lot of these things are caused by us, so we assume that something more powerful and smarter than us caused us. Our assumption, however, doesn't make it true, but our understanding of cause and effect is quite useful when applied to observable reality, so this ends up as a side effect that isn't terribly harmful to the survival of the species.

Answer 6

how the mind works on an evolutionary level
and how this influences our thoughts actions and behaviourisms
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology

Answer 7

There are lots of people who would make fun of the prospect of altering their destinies. This is because it believes that no one gets more that exactly what is put in his destiny.