Exam 2: Culture and Nature

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?

One of the ways that humans are different from other species is that our sensory organs are ____.

Which of the following is an example of a French praxis?

Keith Chen's work on money use in monkeys indicates that monkeys were able to learn rudimentary aspects of money handling.

Humans today still benefit from the famous invention of Alexander Graham Bell (the telephone). Even though Bell has been dead for generations, the basic technology he invented still lives on, and modern telephone systems have built off of and elaborated upon his invention. What best describes this?

Reproductive success is defined by biologists as the ability to have ____.

Which statement is MOST accurate?

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.

Research indicates that, across all contemporary human cultures, ____.

Which statement is true regarding division of labor and the exchange of goods and services?

In speeches about political policies, politicians tend to ____.

Humans are different from other animals in several different ways. For example, unlike other animals, humans ____.

One of the things that sets culture apart, and is one of its major advantages, is ____.

Humans appear to be the only animals that make decisions about what to eat or not eat for ideological reasons.

According to your text, the downside of being social is that ____.

Seahorses show a reversal of the usual sex roles; male seahorses invest more time and energy into offspring than female seahorses do. What would an evolutionary psychologist be MOST likely to say about this?

The tendency for children who started school later to be more likely to be considered "gifted" is an example of the ________________.

Psychologists who study the automatic versus deliberate systems have recently begun to conclude that the automatic mind does ____ than previously thought and is probably ____ than the conscious mind.

The so-called duplex mind is made up of the automatic system and the deliberate system. Compare and contrast these two systems. What are their different capabilities? What are their strengths and weaknesses? What are different examples of automatic versus deliberate processes?

Consider the research on the brain sizes of different animals. According to this research, (domesticated) dogs should have ____ than (wild, pack-living) wolves after adjustment for differences in body weight.