psychological adaptation
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psychological
adjective
uk/ˌsaɪ.kəlˈɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating to the human mind ...
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adaptation
noun
uk/ˌæd.əpˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌæd.əpˈteɪ.ʃən/
the process of changing to suit ...
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(Definition ofpsychologicalandadaptationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is also important to note thatpsychologicaladaptationin middle age might be even more restricted by socio-economic disadvantage.
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The role of social comparison processes in thepsychologicaladaptationof elderly adults.
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How important are differentiated forms of insecurity for understandingpsychologicaladaptation?
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In clinical literature, the function of dreaming has been linked with problem solving andpsychologicaladaptation, but the direct empirical evidence bearing on such functions remains scarce.
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More generally, in modern welfare states, the availability of financial resources continues to influence wellbeing in middle age, and cannot be completely overridden by subjective evaluations andpsychologicaladaptationprocesses.
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Another important insight, supported by the data onpsychologicaladaptation, is that psychic processes are incapable of fully overcoming older people's past and present extreme life circumstances.
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An example of a facultativepsychologicaladaptationmay be adult attachment style.
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From the 1920s to the 1960s attempts were made to differentiate between addiction; and habituation, a less severe form ofpsychologicaladaptation.
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In this theory, people would respond to the threat using the indirectpsychologicaladaptationof affirming alternative self resources unrelated to the provoking threat.
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For example, the ability of toddlers to learn a language with virtually no training is likely to be apsychologicaladaptation.
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One way in which psychological adaptations can and have been studied is through the phenomenon of dissociation.
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We did not explicitly discuss this point but, clearly, such studies are useful and, in some cases, essential to an understanding of psychological adaptations.
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The logic is further obfuscated by the use of architectural and (simplistic) anatomical metaphors for complex physiological and psychological adaptations, as well as by the lack of probabilistic thinking.
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The claim that humans have a large number of psychological adaptations with special design features for anything like the modern hunter-gatherer lifestyle is difficult to reconcile with these numbers.
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Multifinality also leads to a person-oriented approach to research, explaining how similar experiences of maltreatment may, across individuals, evolve into quite different behavioral, emotional, or psychological adaptations.
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Evolutionary psychologists say that humans have psychological adaptations that evolved specifically to help us identify nonreciprocators, commonly referred to as cheaters.
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Evolutionary psychologists argue that much of human behavior is the output of psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments.
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Characteristics that have been demonstrated to be cross cultural human universals such as smiling, crying, facial expressions are presumed to be evolved psychological adaptations.
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Evolved psychological adaptations (such as the ability to learn a language) interact with cultural inputs to produce specific behaviors (e.g., the specific language learned).
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