Exam 8: Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality

Which of the following is probably NOT an adaptation?

According to evolutionary psychology,which of the following is most important to a woman?

When asked how many sexual partners they desired over their lifetimes,women:

Cross-cultural studies of jealousy have found that:

Psychopathy may be an effective strategy for some people in the population to be reproductively successful based on the _____ theory.

If there are almost equal numbers of men and women and one man has several mates,then the other men must,by default,be without a mate.This is an example of _____ polygyny.

Researchers using the _____ approach first observe a phenomenon and then develop a theory to fit the observations.

Incidental effects that are NOT properly considered to be adaptations are called:

In some contexts,two or more heritable variants can evolve within a population.This is called:

Traits that lead to mating benefits rather than survival benefits are probably:

Donald competes to make more money than the rest of his male friends.He also picks the most attractive woman as his spouse.This is an example of _____ selection.

The "top-down" method of empirical research is called the _____ approach.

Research that shows that group cohesion increases when resources or survival depend on group membership helps support the idea:

The process of natural selection is sometimes also called survival selection because individuals must overcome:

Biff works out for hours because he knows that women like muscular guys.He is reacting to the _____ selection pressure exerted by human females on males.

An explanation for individual differences in behavior from an evolutionary perspective is that:

In the context of frequency-dependent strategic individual differences,women who adopt a restricted mating strategy _____.

Research suggests that _____ are most likely to receive help in a famine situation.

From an evolutionary perspective,women will generally prefer men who:

Harry is very loyal to his old army unit.The veterans have reunions and regularly keep in touch with each other.Membership in Harry's army unit most likely has elicited _____ in that group of war veterans.