Exam 3: Genes, Evolution, and Environment

It is impossible to know just how a particular individual's genes and personal history have interacted to produce him or her.

Sociobiologists suggest that humans behave in ways that will:

Match these descriptions with the appropriate concept. -A belief that wealthy and successful individuals are more "reproductively fit" than other people.

In general, evolutionary psychologists study human differences and behavioural geneticists study human similarities.

Sociobiologists predict that, compared to females, males are more likely to:

Which of the following is true about nativism?

Neither nature nor nurture can completely explain human similarities and differences.

The surface structure of a sentence is the:

It is clear that the kind of intelligence that produces high IQ scores is:

The kind of intelligence that produces high IQ scores is highly heritable.

Scientists have identified at least two genes that are responsible for language.

According to Charles Darwin, language:

Today, similarity and proximity are the strongest predictors of the mates people actually choose.

According to sociobiologists, females want sex more often than do males.

Psycholinguists have found that children in different cultures go through similar stages of linguistic development.

Exposure to lead is one of the environmental factors that hinders intelligence.

Which of the following is true about empiricism?

Which of the following is NOT true?

Which of the following would an evolutionary psychologist expect to be more typical of females than of males?

Dizygotic twins develop when separate eggs are fertilized by separate sperm.