Exam 6: Short-Term Sexual Strategies

Men pursue a _______ strategy when the sex ratio (number of males to females) is low and a ________ strategy when the sex ratio is high.

Men report that their ideal outcome of a "hookup" is ____________; women report that their ideal outcome of a "hookup" is ___________.

Sexually unrestricted men tend to prefer mates with lower waist-to-hip ratios than sexually restricted men. This supports which of the following contentions?

Men exhibit shifting standards even over the course of a single night. One study showed that men tended to rate women as more attractive at midnight than at 9:00 p.m. This is referred to as __________.

Ratings of the costs of reputational damage associated with a woman's pursuit of short-term sex are __________ correlated with her score on the Sociosexual Orientation Inventory.

Which of the following adaptive problems did ancestral men NOT face when pursuing a short-term sexual strategy?

Baker and Bellis found that men's sperm count ___________ as a function of the amount of time the couple had spent apart since their last sexual encounter.

Mikach and Bailey found that _________ is a significant predictor of pursuit of a short-term mating strategy for women.

One study asked participants to guess the mating strategy of videotaped female participants and documented a large correlation between their guesses and the actual strategies the participants reported. When asked which cues they used to gauge the mating strategy, they listed several. Which of the following was actually correlated wish the women's reported mating strategy?

One study investigated sex differences in willingness to have sex with a partner at various levels of physical attractiveness. Which of the following accurately depicts the percentages of men and women willing to sleep with members of the opposite sex at the indicated attractiveness levels?

Women, more than men, fantasize about __________.

Which of the following characterizes most women who pursue short-term mating strategies compared to women who pursue long-term mating strategies?

Infanticide rates are highest among __________.

For a benefit to qualify as a function of short-term mating, __________.

Some theorists argue that sex differences in mating strategies are caused by societal gender inequalities. Countries such as Norway, that are extremely egalitarian, should show an attenuation of sex differences in mating motivation and behaviors. What are men's and women's mating strategies like in Norway?

Which of the following is NOT a hypothesized class of functions related to the benefits women gain from short-term mating?

Kinsey estimated that _________ percent of married men had extramarital affairs, whereas _________ percent of women had them.

Research supporting the "good genes" theory of women's short-term mating has documented that around ovulation, women increase their preferences for all of the following EXCEPT __________.

If _______ women had mated monogamously, psychological mechanisms guiding a short-term mating strategy in men would not have evolved.

Men's preferences for a short-term partner are _________ relative to men's preferences for a long-term partner.