Are Learning and Evolved Psychological Mechanisms Mutually Exclusive Explanations of Human

question 21

Multiple Choice

Are learning and evolved psychological mechanisms mutually exclusive explanations of human behavior,and why or why not?

• A)Yes,because evolved psychological mechanisms are reflexes and do not require input from the environment,unlike learning.
• B)Yes,because learning overrides our evolved psychological mechanisms.
• C)No,because evolved psychological mechanisms are learned during development.
• D)No,because learning requires the presence of evolved psychological mechanisms to occur.

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