In his psychology class, Professor Adams said that fear of spiders and snakes are common in humans, but fear of automobiles is not. This is true even though far more people are killed by automobiles than by spiders or snakes. According to the professor, the reason for this is that across the 200,000 years that humans have been on the planet, those who feared and avoided poisonous spiders and snakes were more likely to have children and raise them to an age where the children had kids of their own. This example illustrates which perspective of psychology? a. biopsychology b. behavioral c. evolutionary d. developmental

Question

Physics

Palmer

31 May, 10:05

In his psychology class, Professor Adams said that fear of spiders and snakes are common in humans, but fear of automobiles is not. This is true even though far more people are killed by automobiles than by spiders or snakes. According to the professor, the reason for this is that across the 200,000 years that humans have been on the planet, those who feared and avoided poisonous spiders and snakes were more likely to have children and raise them to an age where the children had kids of their own. This example illustrates which perspective of psychology? a. biopsychology b. behavioral c. evolutionary d. developmental

+3

Answers (1)

Know the Answer?

Allison Moore · Answer 1

Evolutionary

Explanation:

Because our ancestors were afraid of these poisonous spiders and snakes which lead to them to telling their kids of these dangers. Their kids will fear them without even encountering any and this will also be passed on to their future generations.