Exam 2: Culture and Nature

People with bigger social networks have been found to be bigger in some key brain parts, notably the ____.

Compared to animals such as birds, humans have ____.

What is the best example of praxis in American culture?

Understanding what the human psyche is designed to do can help us to understand human behavior in the same way that ____.

Research on cultural differences indicates that ____.

How does the modern notion of the automatic system relate to the Freudian idea of the unconscious mind?

Recall Solomon Asch's famous line-judging studies. In these studies, research subjects were asked to make judgments about unambiguous stimuli. They were asked to do this while in the presence of accomplices who consistently gave incorrect responses. One of the important conclusions to be drawn from Asch's research is that ____.

The automatic system is to quick feelings as the deliberate system is to ____.

When it comes to differences in familial sleeping arrangements across cultures, ____.

Which of the following best describes "change" in the traits of living things?

Compared to the sensory organs of other animals, the sensory organs of humans are particularly well suited for ____.

When it comes to cross-cultural differences in behavior, people of all cultures ____.

According to your text, which of the following makes us most human?

_____, an important human and cultural phenomenon, is known as the "universal language."

Which factor do biologists emphasize as the MOST important to natural selection?

Describe and explain two political tradeoffs.

The relative age effect is limited to sports.

The idea that nature and culture changed together and shaped each other is known as ____.

In order for humans to function effectively in society, ____.

Unlike social animals, cultural animals ____.