Exam 2: Culture and Nature

Research on cross-cultural differences in sexuality has found that sex manuals written thousands of years ago in China covered ____ techniques that one would find in a sex manual today.

The term "psyche" refers to ___.

The textbook argues that humans have been shaped by culture to participate in culture. How has this shaping process occurred?

In order for people to operate successfully in culture, the relatively impulsive automatic system often needs to be overridden by the more rational ____________________ system.

Charles Darwin, the biologist who proposed the theory of evolution, was ____.

In general, social psychologists who research the duplex mind now believe that the automatic system is:

The relative age effect best illustrates ____.

Research on the brain sizes of various animals has indicated that brain size is MOST strongly linked to a species' ____.

Which of the following statements about survival is most accurate?

Research suggests that everywhere in the world, there is a cultural norm for women to remain virgins until married.

Marlena works and works to earn as much money as she can, but she will rarely spend it, even to get things that she really needs. Marlena's behavior illustrates which analogy that Lea and Webley proposed to explain human motivation with respect to money?

Compared to other animals' sensory organs, humans' sensory organs are especially good at ____.

According to your text a major and recent concern of evolutionary psychologists has been to understand gender differences in ____.

Jim's therapist concluded that there was "a lot going on in his psyche last week." What did his therapist mean by this?

Explain the fundamental principles behind social brain theory.

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 what element of culture?

Which of the following is the best example of praxis in American culture?

Another term for "culturally shared ways of doing things" is ____________________.

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

When researchers have studied delay of gratification using simple tasks with food rewards, they have found that chimpanzees are _____.