The Effects of Personality When Race Is a Factor - Three Premises: Understanding Human Psychology and Personality

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Three Premises: Understanding Human Psychology and Personality

Understanding how and why we as humans make certain decisions can become complex yet interesting. In my readings I discovered that. Evolutionary psychology has several premises. Larsen and Buss made mentioned of three specific ones that help us better understand the adaptive decisions that we make on a constant basis. The first premise is the domain-specificity, which is used to make decisions about a particular problem or issue. The book uses the selection of food for an example. How you select your food is based on adaptive mechanism and not maladaptive. This reason is due to knowing that certain things are not for human consumption. If we were to eat everything in our eyesight, then we would open our body to possible bacteria and diseases. Whatever your preference is, will determine your choices. Domain-specificity it what is used when we are considering what we like or what we prefer. You cannot use these mechanism in any other decision making or I guarantee you they will not yield the same results. Different adaptive mechanisms are used for different areas of decision making. The second premise discussed in the chapter is Numerousness. Numerousness is the premise that addresses the problem area of adaptive mechanisms. This premise contains a number of problems that causes a number adaptive mechanism. The book uses the domain of fear as an example. Fear factors and phobias are something that most humans have. In considering this premise evolutionary psychology suggests that a lot of domain specific mechanism is the reason for a large number of adaptive problems with humans. The last premise discussed is functionality. Functionality is the notion that our psychological mechanism is designed to accomplish specific adaptive goals. In this premise you should consider the functioning of our bodily organs. These organs work together to perform a specific job. If we are unaware of how they should function than we are unable to give insight about them. If we did not have this insight about them, we would not be able to make good decisions based on food, living habits, good mates and so on. Knowing how things function allows us to make adaptive goals and decisions. The search for function should involve identifying the specific adaptive problem for which the mechanism is an evolved solution according to Larsen and Buss. These three premises allow us to use adaptive mechanism in our decision making processes. Domain-specificity, numerousness and functionality all work together in the understanding of the adaptive mechanism. These premises work together not only in humans but in all living organism. Why does your heartbeat? Why does she keep dating the same type men, yielding the same results? These questions can become more obvious when looking at the three