After reading Chapter 15, you should be able to: - List and discuss Darwin's key components to evolutionary theory.
- Describe the evolutionary theory foundational background to Buss's work.
- Discuss the term "evolutionary psychology" and the four basic questions that focus on the evolutionary perspective.
- Explain the relationship of evolutionary theory to personality theory.
- Describe Buss's model of personality and its relationship to McCrae and Costa's Big Five Model.
- Discuss Buss's "origins of individual differences" and the four sources of difference.
- List and describe Buss's key five personality dimensions.
- Compare and contrast some of the current pros and cons to Buss's theory.
- Describe the three general topics in Buss's related research.
- Discuss and critique evolutionary theory in relationship to a concept of humanity.
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