Question 1

Evolution was first proposed by

Accepted Answer

A)  The Ancient Greeks 
B)  The Babylonians 
C)  Erasmus Darwin 
D)  Charles Darwin 
A)  The Ancient Greeks 
B)  The Babylonians 
C)  Erasmus Darwin 
D)  Charles Darwin A

Question 2

Natural Selection depends on:

Accepted Answer

A)  The inheritance of acquired characteristics 
B)  Heritable variation and differential reproduction 
C)  Both a and b 
D)  Neither a nor b 
A)  The inheritance of acquired characteristics 
B)  Heritable variation and differential reproduction 
C)  Both a and b 
D)  Neither a nor b B

Question 3

The Modularity of Mind was published in 1983 by:

Accepted Answer

A)  Maynard-Smith 
B)  Dawkins 
C)  Tooby & Cosmides 
D)  Fodor 
A)  Maynard-Smith 
B)  Dawkins 
C)  Tooby & Cosmides 
D)  Fodor D

Question 4

The view that the mind is made up of domain-specific mental modules is central to what?

Accepted Answer

A)  All evolutionary psychology 
B)  Sociobiology 
C)  Behavioural ecology 
D)  The Santa-Barbara School 
A)  All evolutionary psychology 
B)  Sociobiology 
C)  Behavioural ecology 
D)  The Santa-Barbara School

Question 5

What is the Great Chain of being?

Accepted Answer

A)  The view that there is a natural hierarchy in life 
B)  Another term for decent with modification 
C)  The view that one can trace all organisms back to a single common ancestor 
D)  The fact that all creatures are genetically related to one another 
A)  The view that there is a natural hierarchy in life 
B)  Another term for decent with modification 
C)  The view that one can trace all organisms back to a single common ancestor 
D)  The fact that all creatures are genetically related to one another

Question 6

The modern synthesis is a combination of the work of which two people?

Accepted Answer

A)  Darwin and Mendel 
B)  Darwin and Wallace 
C)  Lamark and Mendel 
D)  Dawkins and Darwin 
A)  Darwin and Mendel 
B)  Darwin and Wallace 
C)  Lamark and Mendel 
D)  Dawkins and Darwin

Question 7

Which of the following is a core principle of evolutionary psychology?

Accepted Answer

A)  All behaviours are adaptive 
B)  All behaviours are hard-wired 
C)  Culture and learning are of little importance 
D)  None of the above 
A)  All behaviours are adaptive 
B)  All behaviours are hard-wired 
C)  Culture and learning are of little importance 
D)  None of the above

Question 8

SSSM means:

Accepted Answer

A)  Standard social science mechanism 
B)  Standard social science model 
C)  Standard social science module 
D)  Special social science model 
A)  Standard social science mechanism 
B)  Standard social science model 
C)  Standard social science module 
D)  Special social science model

Question 9

The 'Spandrel's of San Marco' (Gould & Lewontin, 1979) is a criticism of what?

Accepted Answer

A)  Innateness 
B)  Inheritance 
C)  Adaptationism 
D)  Determinism 
A)  Innateness 
B)  Inheritance 
C)  Adaptationism 
D)  Determinism

Question 10

Phrenology is most similar to which of Tooby and Cosmides's principles?

Accepted Answer

A)  Adaptiveness 
B)  Innateness 
C)  Modularity 
D)  The EEA 
A)  Adaptiveness 
B)  Innateness 
C)  Modularity 
D)  The EEA

Question 11

Which of the following is an ultimate question?

Accepted Answer

A)  Why do we find faeces disgusting? 
B)  How does schizophrenia develop? 
C)  Are men better at spatial tasks than women? 
D)  Which part of the brain is responsible for love? 
A)  Why do we find faeces disgusting? 
B)  How does schizophrenia develop? 
C)  Are men better at spatial tasks than women? 
D)  Which part of the brain is responsible for love?

Question 12

The term 'evolutionary psychology' was first coined by

Accepted Answer

A)  Charles Darwin 
B)  E.O. Wilson 
C)  Richard Dawkins 
D)  John Tooby and Leda Cosmides 
A)  Charles Darwin 
B)  E.O. Wilson 
C)  Richard Dawkins 
D)  John Tooby and Leda Cosmides

Question 13

If a plant with a white flower is crossed with a plant with a red flower and we find the offspring are all either white or red never pink this is evidence for

Accepted Answer

A)  The particulate nature of inheritance 
B)  The blending nature of inheritance 
C)  Incomplete dominance 
D)  Heterozygous advantage 
A)  The particulate nature of inheritance 
B)  The blending nature of inheritance 
C)  Incomplete dominance 
D)  Heterozygous advantage

Question 14

The EEA refers to:

Accepted Answer

A)  Ecological environment of adaptation 
B)  Evolutionary environment of adaptation 
C)  Environment of evolutionary adaptation 
D)  Evolutionary ecology of adaptation 
A)  Ecological environment of adaptation 
B)  Evolutionary environment of adaptation 
C)  Environment of evolutionary adaptation 
D)  Evolutionary ecology of adaptation

Question 15

What is the naturalistic fallacy?

Accepted Answer

A)  Something must be good because it is natural 
B)  Something must be natural because it is good 
C)  We can understand nature by experimentation 
D)  We cannot understand nature by experimentation 
A)  Something must be good because it is natural 
B)  Something must be natural because it is good 
C)  We can understand nature by experimentation 
D)  We cannot understand nature by experimentation

Question 16

Which of the following is NOT an assumption of the cultural relativist (or SSSM) tradition?

Accepted Answer

A)  Culture is an autonomous force 
B)  Learning processes are domain specific 
C)  Humans are born blank slates 
D)  Human behaviour is infinitely malleable 
A)  Culture is an autonomous force 
B)  Learning processes are domain specific 
C)  Humans are born blank slates 
D)  Human behaviour is infinitely malleable

Question 17

Eugenics refers to

Accepted Answer

A)  The process of genetic transmission 
B)  Selective breeding for the good of the species 
C)  Indiscriminate genocide 
D)  The inheritance of acquired characteristics 
A)  The process of genetic transmission 
B)  Selective breeding for the good of the species 
C)  Indiscriminate genocide 
D)  The inheritance of acquired characteristics

Question 18

"(It) is not a place or a habitat, or even a time period. It is a statistical composite of the adaptation-relevant properties of ancestral environments encountered by members of ancestral populations, weighted by their frequency and fitness-consequences." What is being referred to here?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Great Chain of being 
B)  The Upper Pleistocene 
C)  The stone age 
D)  The EEA 
A)  The Great Chain of being 
B)  The Upper Pleistocene 
C)  The stone age 
D)  The EEA

Question 19

Who suggested 'biology will cannibalise psychology':

Accepted Answer

A)  Dawkins 
B)  Wilson 
C)  Thornhill & Parker 
D)  Trivers 
A)  Dawkins 
B)  Wilson 
C)  Thornhill & Parker 
D)  Trivers

Question 20

Breland and Breland (1961) found that

Accepted Answer

A)  Animals can be trained to do almost anything 
B)  Learning is a species-general process 
C)  Learning is constrained by species-specific 'instincts' 
D)  Positive reinforcement is more effective than punishment 
A)  Animals can be trained to do almost anything 
B)  Learning is a species-general process 
C)  Learning is constrained by species-specific 'instincts' 
D)  Positive reinforcement is more effective than punishment

Evolution was first proposed by

Natural Selection depends on:

The Modularity of Mind was published in 1983 by:

The view that the mind is made up of domain-specific mental modules is central to what?

What is the Great Chain of being?

The modern synthesis is a combination of the work of which two people?

Which of the following is a core principle of evolutionary psychology?

SSSM means:

The 'Spandrel's of San Marco' (Gould & Lewontin, 1979) is a criticism of what?

Phrenology is most similar to which of Tooby and Cosmides's principles?

Which of the following is an ultimate question?

The term 'evolutionary psychology' was first coined by

If a plant with a white flower is crossed with a plant with a red flower and we find the offspring are all either white or red never pink this is evidence for

The EEA refers to:

What is the naturalistic fallacy?

Which of the following is NOT an assumption of the cultural relativist (or SSSM) tradition?

Eugenics refers to

"(It) is not a place or a habitat, or even a time period. It is a statistical composite of the adaptation-relevant properties of ancestral environments encountered by members of ancestral populations, weighted by their frequency and fitness-consequences." What is being referred to here?

Who suggested 'biology will cannibalise psychology':

Breland and Breland (1961) found that

Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

Sexual Selection

The Evolution of Human Mate Choice

Cognitive Development and the Innateness Issue

Social Development

The Evolutionary Psychology of Social Behaviour Kin Relationships and Conflict

The Evolutionary Psychology of Social Behaviour Reciprocity and Group Behaviour

Evolution, Thought and Cognition

The Evolution of Language

The Evolution of Emotion

Evolutionary Psychopathology and Darwinian Medicine

Evolution and Individual Differences

Evolutionary Psychology and Culture

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Exam 1: Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology

Evolution was first proposed by

Natural Selection depends on:

The Modularity of Mind was published in 1983 by:

The view that the mind is made up of domain-specific mental modules is central to what?

What is the Great Chain of being?

The modern synthesis is a combination of the work of which two people?

Which of the following is a core principle of evolutionary psychology?

SSSM means:

The 'Spandrel's of San Marco' (Gould & Lewontin, 1979) is a criticism of what?

Phrenology is most similar to which of Tooby and Cosmides's principles?

Which of the following is an ultimate question?

The term 'evolutionary psychology' was first coined by

If a plant with a white flower is crossed with a plant with a red flower and we find the offspring are all either white or red never pink this is evidence for

The EEA refers to:

What is the naturalistic fallacy?

Which of the following is NOT an assumption of the cultural relativist (or SSSM) tradition?

Eugenics refers to

"(It) is not a place or a habitat, or even a time period. It is a statistical composite of the adaptation-relevant properties of ancestral environments encountered by members of ancestral populations, weighted by their frequency and fitness-consequences." What is being referred to here?

Who suggested 'biology will cannibalise psychology':

Breland and Breland (1961) found that

Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

Sexual Selection

The Evolution of Human Mate Choice

Cognitive Development and the Innateness Issue

Social Development

The Evolutionary Psychology of Social Behaviour Kin Relationships and Conflict

The Evolutionary Psychology of Social Behaviour Reciprocity and Group Behaviour

Evolution, Thought and Cognition

The Evolution of Language

The Evolution of Emotion

Evolutionary Psychopathology and Darwinian Medicine

Evolution and Individual Differences

Evolutionary Psychology and Culture

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