Evolutionary psychology is founded on several core premises:
- The brain is an information processing device, and it produces behavior in response to external and internal inputs.
- The brain's adaptive mechanisms were shaped by natural and sexual selection.
- Different neural mechanisms are specialized for solving problems in humanity's evolutionary past.
- The brain has evolved specialized neural mechanisms that were designed for solving problems that recurred over deep evolutionary time, giving modern humans stone-age minds.
- Most contents and processes of the brain are unconscious; and most mental problems that seem easy to solve are actually extremely difficult problems that are solved unconsciously by complicated neural mechanisms,
- Human psychology consists of many specialized mechanisms, each sensitive to different classes of information or inputs. These mechanisms combine to produce manifest behavior.
[SOURCE = Wikipedia]
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