Stages of Human Life History
The first stage in human life history
Social relationships in infancy and childhood revolve around this
What is survival?
These systems help us to maintain social relationships
What are individual-level systems?
The article states that that education can be difficult for many children because it is what?
What is unnatural?
A longer juvenile period has this clear risk
What is death before the age of reproduction?
A stage where humans experience a visible growth spurt
What is adolescence?
During the juvenile period, social relationships shift their focus to this group
What are peers?
These help us understand groups and competition in the social world
What are group-level systems?
It is only in this century that the majority of people on the planet have this skill
What is literacy?
With increased complexity of a species, the longer this is
What is the juvenile period?
This stage occurs between ages 7 to the middle teenage years
This is what childhood social relationships are in preparation for
What are adult reproductive activities?
This species has the unique ability to form in-groups and out-groups on the basis of social ideologies
Who are humans?
Children typically have high motivation to perform tasks involving these
What are biologically primary abilities?
A way for human children to practice and refine social skills
What is play?
A stage where reproductive activities occur
What is adulthood?
Insecure attachment is correlated with this
What is marital instability?
These are universally acquired, like language, reading, and other evolved forms of cognition
What are biologically primary abilities?
Understanding and addressing social issues, such as individual differences in parenting styles and child neglect and abuse, can be greatly influenced by an understanding this
What are evolved social biases?
What are developmental stages?
A period that humans experience for longer than other primates
What is childhood?
These lower infant mortality rates
What are attachment behaviors?
These are culturally determined and need lots of reinforcement and repetition like speed reading
What are biologically secondary abilities?
A basic tenet of evolutionary psychology is that modern humans evolved these to deal with recurring conditions in the environments of our ancestors
What are domain-specific cognitive abilities and behavioral strategies?
A function of this is to allow the refinement for physical, social, and cognitive skills
What is delayed maturation?