Exam 2: Culture and Nature

The fact that collectivist cultures tend to spring up in places with abundant pathogens, but individualist cultures tend to flourish in places with few pathogens best illustrates ____.

Humans today still benefit from the famous invention of the Wright brothers (the airplane). Even though they have been dead for generations, their basic technology still lives on, and modern aircrafts have built and elaborated upon their invention. What best describes this?

When people have a problem or need, they most often look to ________________ for help.

If Barack Obama was like most politicians, then he probably ____.

According to evolutionary theory, the traits of which man should be most favored by natural selection?

Joe is from a Baptist background. Sarah is from a Lutheran background. They are arguing about whether or not it is "right" to baptize infants into the Christian faith. Even though they disagree on infant baptism, their argument is based on their common belief that the Christian faith is truth. This feature that underlies their argument illustrates the element of _____.

The relative age effect best illustrates ____.

When faced with a time trade-off, nature tends to ____.

_____ argued that nature versus culture is not a fair fight because without nature you have nothing.

The automatic system is ____.

A tradeoff is a choice in which choosing one direction will maximize one benefit but force you to sacrifice another benefit.

The term praxis best describes ____.

What makes humans most unique from other animals is ____.

A stranger provokes you by saying something highly offensive, and you experience a strong, immediate urge to assault him or her. What would the origin of the impulse most likely be?

Suppose you are trying to find a good place to eat. Research suggests that if you were a dog, you would ____ but that if you were a human, you would ____.

The notion of "group selection" has mostly been ____.

Dr. Snooky administers a psychological test to a group of children. She gives them a choice between eating a cookie now and eating three cookies if they can wait for 20 minutes. Most children chose to eat the single cookie immediately. Dr. Snooky is probably testing the children's ____.

Which of the following is one of the ways that cultural animals differ from social animals?

In evolutionary theory, the process of natural selection MOST favors the ____.

In general, ____ psychologists believe that natural selection happens at the individual level. And in general, ____ psychologists believe that it can happen at the group level as well.