How does disgust act as a behavioral immune system?

What will be an ideal response?


a . Disgust produces an avoidance motive. When we see something disgusting, we want to avoid it.
b. In our ancestral history, this helped us to avoid spoiled food, contact with sick people, risky sex partners, and other potentially health-damaging experiences.
c. Disgust may even underlie some modern tendencies toward prejudice. In the past, people living in the same community had likely been exposed to the same diseases. Strangers from other groups could carry new, risky diseases. Disgust with other groups is associated with prejudice in modern intergroup relations.

Psychology

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The key difference between Maslow's and Rogers's work was the former's focus on ________ and the latter's focus on ________

A) determinism; free will B) free will; reciprocal determinism C) self-actualized individuals; the self-concept D) self-actualized individuals; unconscious mental processing

Psychology

Which sequence of development means "from the center outward?"

a. proximodistal c. cephalocaudal b. integration d. differentiation

Psychology

During the period of middle childhood, most parents stress the development of autonomy over the development of initiative

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Psychology

In the context of encoding, describe how stress affects memory of an event. Discuss the results of the Morgan et al. (2004) study that examined the effects of stress on soldiers' ability to identify their interrogators.

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology