Psychology: Chp 1, Lesson 4

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Charly Green

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Which part of your psyche tells you to return the excess money?

Podcast Source: https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/the-secret-life-of-secrets/

Video Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6o-uPJarA

Example:
Two boys are exactly the sameage. The first boy lives in 12,000 B.C while the other lives in the year 2000. While they are the same age, 15, their roles are entirely different. The boy living in 12,000 B.C is a hunter for his tribe and for his family. His primary goals are survival and feeding himself. These traits take precedence over any others and he does not speak what would now be considered an intelligible language or worry about educating himself. His brain is not as developed as what is found in modern times.
The second boy, living in 2000 does not have these responsibilities. He is not a natural hunter and instead, his brain is made for holding important information and gathering more knowledge. He spends his time in school where he learns more and his brain concentrates on remembering the things that he is learning as he goes along.
The traits of memory and speech have evolved over time. The second boy has more intelligence (at least what we would call so in a modern era) while the other boy has natural instincts for hunting and protecting his family. These traits are not needed in a modern era however, and natural selection has all but eliminated them in modern humans. The traits of the modern era were not important in history and therefore did not exist. They came to be through time only when they were required.

Video Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hHNq45rEnU