Exam 5: The Nature, Nurture, and Evolution of Behaviour

The main "test case" for evolutionary psychological theory has been human sex differences. Give three examples of universal differences between males and females found to exist surrounding mating and parenting

The heritability statistic represents a measurement of exactly which traits are inherited and which traits have been acquired through a child's environment

According to Charles Darwin, characteristics of organisms that allow for better survival rates in a given environment also

Sociocultural psychologists use social role theory to explain the transmission of prototypical behaviours seen in men and women surrounding mating. Describe two specific research results that illustrate such prototypical behaviour

Which of the following is correct regarding the acceptance of the idea that humans evolved from earlier forms of life?

_________arise as a result of small incremental changes in the genome of organisms over many generations, which help the organism to survive in a changing environment.

_________psychology is a multi-disciplinary approach explaining behaviour based on the influence of natural selection and sexual reproduction

What explanation would an evolutionary psychologist give for the propensity of women to look for older, more established, high-status mates?

Without proper nutrition and the appropriate chemical and hormonal environment, the 30,000 genes in a fetal genome will tend to express themselves as a phenotype

The field of molecular genetics differs from behavioural genetics in that

One reason that the genome is complicated is that

In the nature-nurture debate, nature stands for

Which of the following is not true of a "natural" experiment?

Sociocultural psychologists have identified four dimensions of behaviour along which cultures typically differ. Identify all four dimensions and give a specific example of the extremes of each dimension

One way to continue to improve the scientific conclusions drawn by evolutionary psychologists would be to

Though as they age, men tend to be attracted to women at the peak of fertility, men also

Some gene-environment correlations are "active" in that an individual

Research illustrates that self-enhancement based on individual accomplishments is more likely among

The majority of evolutionary psychologists believe that nature has a significantly greater influence on behaviour than nurture

The field of behaviour genetics is a field within this psychological perspective