Unnatural Selection: Comment on the “Teaching Comparative Psychology” Symposium

Candland, Douglas K.

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“…Mead's popularity suggests that human malleability may be intuitively plausible and a universal human nature may be less plausible (Barkow, Cosmides, & Tooby, 1992). As evolutionary psychology normally aligns with a universal human nature, this may partly explain why Darwinism has been largely marginalized within psychology in the 20th century (Candland, 1987; Tooby & Cosmides, 2005). Like behaviorism, historical events may influence behavior outside introspective awareness, but the intuitive plausibility of evolutionary psychology is further compromised because historical events occurred long before ontogeny.…”

Section: Evolutionary Psychology Violates Human Intuitionmentioning

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The Impact of Human Intuition in Psychology

Goddard

2009

Review of General Psychology

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An empirically valid outcome in psychology may differ in the degree to which the outcome does or does not conform to human intuition. The author provides a brief history of three psychological outcomes violating human intuition, notes the resemblance to the common sense revolution, and then discusses how human intuition may be detrimental to behaviorism and evolutionary perspectives of human nature. The role of human intuition in supernatural beliefs is considered and, finally, possible methods to improve the plausibility of counterintuitive outcomes are suggested.

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Section: Evolutionary Psychology Violates Human Intuitionmentioning

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The Impact of Human Intuition in Psychology

Goddard

2009

Review of General Psychology

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“…Few institutions offer courses on comparative psychology, few psychology departments offer required courses on learning, few faculty positions are available in the area of animal behavior and learning, and the opportunity for animal behavior experiences for undergraduates have declined over the past two decades [Candland, 1987;Abramson, 1990;Viney et al, 1990;Benedict and Stoloff, 1991;King and Viney, 1992;Abramson et al, 1996bAbramson et al, , 1999aBell and Goodie, 1997;Machado and Silva, 1998;Abramson and Satterfield, 1999]. Without formal instruction in the very discipline that trains students how to systematically search for similarities and differences in behavior, how can we meaningfully discuss the evolution of intelligence -a question that requires a profound understanding and proper use of comparative methods [Bornstein, 1980].…”

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Behavioral Studies of Learning in the Africanized Honey Bee (<i>Apis mellifera</i> L.)

Abramson

Aquino²

2002

Brain Behav Evol

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Experiments on basic classical conditioning phenomena in adult and young Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) are described. Phenomena include conditioning to various stimuli, extinction (both unpaired and CS only), conditioned inhibition, color and odor discrimination. In addition to work on basic phenomena, experiments on practical applications of conditioning methodology are illustrated with studies demonstrating the effects of insecticides on learning and the reaction of bees to consumer products. Electron microscope photos are presented of Africanized workers, drones, and queen bees. Possible sub-species differences between Africanized and European bees are discussed.

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“…Another paper in this symposium suggests that a course in comparative psychology should replace a course in introductory psychology and therefore be a student's fi rst introduction to the fi eld of psychology ( Demarest, 1987a )-bravo! For those readers contemplating creating a comparative psychology course, this symposium also provided insights on how to create such a course ( Candland, 1987 ;Demarest, 1987a ;Greenberg, 1987 ;Thompson, 1987 ).…”

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A Crisis in Comparative Psychology: Where Have All the Undergraduates Gone? Additional Comments,

Abramson

2015

Comprehensive Psychology

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This article identifi es what I believe is a crisis in comparative psychology: the need to recruit undergraduates as the next generation of comparative psychologists. Issues to be addressed include the lack of graduate programs, only a single currently available comparative textbook, few undergraduate courses in comparative psychology, and the portrayal of comparative psychology in introductory psychology texts. Suggestions to help increase undergraduate interest in comparative psychology involve: recognition that comparative psychology is more than the study of animal behavior, that comparative psychology teaches broad-based research and critical thinking skills that can be used not only to further educational opportunities but also be useful for students who would like to directly go into business, encouraging students to create their own undergraduate major with a focus on comparative psychology, development of on-line courses, promotion of comparative-based teaching exercises, and using a track system to develop graduate programs in comparative psychology.

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Unnatural Selection: Comment on the “Teaching Comparative Psychology” Symposium

Abstract: It is not only curious, b u t inexplicable, t h a t the single aspect of modern psychology that can boast of following a unified epistemology is that which has been driven nearest

Cited by 6 publications

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The Impact of Human Intuition in Psychology

The Impact of Human Intuition in Psychology

Behavioral Studies of Learning in the Africanized Honey Bee (<i>Apis mellifera</i> L.)

A Crisis in Comparative Psychology: Where Have All the Undergraduates Gone? Additional Comments,

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