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Evolution and nature vs. nurture (Group Hopper) Key concepts: Modularity Principles of Fodorian modules Domain specific, mandatory processing, informationally encapsulated Stroop Effect (mandatory processing) Cheater detection module Bottom up / Top down McGurk Effect bottom up = data-driven,...

Evolution and nature vs. nurture (Group Hopper) Key concepts: Modularity Principles of Fodorian modules Domain specific, mandatory processing, informationally encapsulated Stroop Effect (mandatory processing) Cheater detection module Bottom up / Top down McGurk Effect bottom up = data-driven, low level top down = category-based experience, high-level Evolutionary psychology Marr’s level of analysis Computation, algorithmic, implementation Biological determinism Phrenology Reinforcement learning Operant conditioning Critical period Key people: Skinner, Chomsky, Fodor, Marr, Lamarck, Darwin Buckner: Brain is a Bag of Tricks The left side of your brain controls language, right side controls objects/motor skills. Your brain is able to multitask without your knowledge. Sugita: Face Perception of Monkeys Critical period for facial recognition Face perception is experience dependent Monkeys deprived of seeing monkey faces had more trouble differentiating between monkey faces, when deprived of human faces had trouble differentiating human faces Lewontin: The Fallacy of Biological Determinism Heritable does NOT mean unchangeable No one has ever been able to find the norm of reaction for any trait, let alone intelligence. In other words, we haven’t figured out the exact environmental conditions that change traits like intelligence exactly