Exam 2: Culture and Nature

Social animal is to cultural animal as ____ is to ____.

Some of the problems that are unique to humans, like suicide and genocide, are due to ____.

In recent years, evolutionary psychologists have begun to stress that ________________ is more important than ________________ in driving natural selection.

Natural selection is best summed up by which phrase?

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

Understanding what the human psyche was designed to do can help us to understand human behavior in the same way that ____.

Consider the many steps involved in how most people get their food in modern societies (e.g., steps involving everything from farms to factories to stores). This process is a good example of ____.

Collectivist cultures tend to be found in places where there are ____ pathogens; individualist cultures tend to be found in places where there are ____.

Kirk works hard to earn as much money as he can. He tries to be a good steward of his money, using it to buy a solid house for his family to live in, healthy food for them to eat, cars so they can get around town, and so forth. Kirk's approach to money is most consistent with which of the following metaphors that Lea and Webley proposed to explain the human motivation towards the pursuit of money?

Unlike social animals, cultural animals ____.

Social animals need something akin to ____ to help them adjust to group life.

Research suggests that people would prefer to gain money over social acceptance.

In all contemporary human cultures, homosexual behavior is ____.

The automatic system is to quick feelings as the deliberate system is to ____.

According to social brain theory, what enables humans to connect with one another?

For most people, going to college requires sacrificing immediate comforts and pleasures for the sake of a better future life. That is, for most people, college is ____.

An important finding in Solomon Asch's research (where people were asked to judge unambiguous stimuli while in the presence of confederates who consistently gave the wrong response) was that we often look to others for information instead of looking to the environment.

Consider a mutation of the gene that determines female lifespan. The lifespan of a female with this mutation will change from 75 to 150 years. This mutation would ____.

Politicians frequently face the trade-off of ____ to help assure that they will get elected versus ____ and possibly jeopardizing their chances of getting reelected.

More diseases cause people to be more ________________, especially toward people who look different, as if the body automatically suspects strange-looking people of carrying illness.