Discuss two ways that an evolutionary perspective expands our understanding of psychopathology.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: The evolutionary perspective expands our understanding of mental illness by directing us to ask whether particular disorders are universal across cultures and persistent through historical time. In this way, we might learn how and when disorders originated in the human population. The evolutionary perspective also directs us to consider how disorders may be related to traits that might be adaptive.
Learning Objective: 2.6 Ask critical questions about psychopathology from an evolutionary perspective.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
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