Evolutionary Psychology utilizes a method known as 'functional analysis' to discover cognitive mechanisms, which involves starting with hypotheses about adaptive problems faced by ancestors and inferring the cognitive adaptations that evolved to solve them.

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• evolutionary psychology concept
• cognitive mechanisms concept
• functional analysis concept
• cognitive adaptations concept