Exam 15: Buss: Evolutionary Theory of Personality

The fifth adaptive personality system is the evolved strategy of ____________ involves one's propensity for innovation and ability to solve problems.

Buss and his colleague Heidi Greiling propose _______ distinct sources of individual differences

__________ mechanisms are physiological organs and systems that evolved to solve problems of survival

Buss states that there are ______ specific main classes of mechanism.

starts with the assumption that motivation,emotion,and personality are adaptive in that they solve problems of _______________.

Which one of the following is not one of the types of selection focused on by evolutionary theorists?

Social psychologists use the term ______________ to describe our tendency to ignore situational and environmental forces when explaining the behavior of other people and instead focus on internal dispositions.

People high in __________ are also driven and ambitious.

Evolutionary theory of personality argues that the theory rates quite highly ______________________.

Evolutionary psychology and evolutionary theory of personality have its own scientific society called __________________.