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Evolutionary psychology, an Uncommon card
Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 92
- DEF
- 72
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 91,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Evolutionary psychology quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Evolutionary psychology card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regard to the ______ problems they evolved to solve.
Answer
ancestral. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regard to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve. From the Evolutionary psychology article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology 92 · Military history 85 · Amputation 80 · Californium 74 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Amputation. Amputation 130,000 · Evolutionary psychology 91,000 · Military history 62,000 · Biogeography 45,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regard to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve.
- In this framework, psychological traits and mechanisms are either functional products of natural and sexual selection or non-adaptive by-products of other adaptive traits.
- Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms, such as the heart, lungs, and the liver, is common in evolutionary biology.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Evolutionary psychology article was read about 91,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 92 and blocks with 72: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Evolutionary psychology
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Evolutionary psychology (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Mrmw, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
