Exam 9: Cooperative Alliances

The indirect reciprocity theory explains __________.

One of the most important adaptive problems for the altruist is __________.

Which of the following was not a cognitive capacity that must have evolved to motivate forming social contracts and avoiding the threat of cheaters?

According to costly signaling theory,how does context affect our altruistic tendencies?

De Waal found that male chimpanzees often benefit from social alliances by ________________.

Which of the following is NOT a strategy for increasing the odds of becoming irreplaceable,as discussed by Tooby and Cosmides?

Which of the following has been identified as a potential facial cue to altruistic tendencies?

Costly signaling refers to __________.

Successful performance on cheater detection tasks is _______________ successful performance on altruist detection tasks.

Bleske and Buss found that ________ evaluated the potential for sexual access to their opposite-sex friends as _________beneficial.

Wilkinson discovered that vampire bats __________ regurgitate a portion of the blood they have sucked for ingestion by others.

The Wason selection task and modifications of it suggest that humans are good at ___________ but poor at ____________.

The banker's paradox is a term that implies that __________.

The mere presence of ___________ is sufficient to increase the punishment of non-cooperators.

Price found that __________.

Social exchange is __________.

Axelrod and Hamilton found that the best strategy in the Prisoner's Dilemma was __________.

In which ways is the Prisoner's Dilemma artificial compared to everyday life?

Tooby and Cosmides argue that selection should fashion assessment mechanisms that make differentiations between __________.

Among the Shuar in Ecuador,punishment is especially harsh toward in-group members who ______________________-even more than toward out-group members.