Question 1

Which of the following is a documented example of reactive heritability?

Accepted Answer

A) Offspring's tendency to rebel against their parents post-puberty. 
B) The positive correlation between parents' IQ and offspring's IQ. 
C) Men's significantly greater tendency to prefer short-term mating relationships,relative to women. 
D) The positive correlation between extraversion and physical strength. 
A) Offspring's tendency to rebel against their parents post-puberty. 
B) The positive correlation between parents' IQ and offspring's IQ. 
C) Men's significantly greater tendency to prefer short-term mating relationships,relative to women. 
D) The positive correlation between extraversion and physical strength.

Question 2

All of the following forces could cause the variation inherent in individual differences except __________.

Accepted Answer

A) individual variation in exposure to certain environmental insults 
B) mutation load 
C) frequency dependent selection 
D) group selection 
A) individual variation in exposure to certain environmental insults 
B) mutation load 
C) frequency dependent selection 
D) group selection

Question 3

Which of the following elements is NOT universal across all languages?

Accepted Answer

A) major lexical categories (like nouns,verbs,adjectives) 
B) rules of linear order 
C) the underlying sounds used 
D) verb affixes which denote the timeframe of the event 
A) major lexical categories (like nouns,verbs,adjectives) 
B) rules of linear order 
C) the underlying sounds used 
D) verb affixes which denote the timeframe of the event

Question 4

Gangestad and Buss found that parasite prevalence is ___________ correlated with the importance that people in those cultures paced on physical attractiveness in a mate.

Accepted Answer

A) positively 
B) negatively 
C) not 
D) causally 
A) positively 
B) negatively 
C) not 
D) causally

Question 5

Tooby and Cosmides argue that errors in processing will result when __________.

Accepted Answer

A) the problem is too domain-general for mechanisms to have been fashioned to deal with a domain-general problem 
B) individuals are presented with visual information rather than written information 
C) there is a high degree of uncertainty 
D) there is a mismatch between the problem presented and the problem the mechanism was designed to solve 
A) the problem is too domain-general for mechanisms to have been fashioned to deal with a domain-general problem 
B) individuals are presented with visual information rather than written information 
C) there is a high degree of uncertainty 
D) there is a mismatch between the problem presented and the problem the mechanism was designed to solve

Question 6

Chomsky and Gould argue that language is __________.

Accepted Answer

A) an adaptation designed for the communication of information 
B) a byproduct of the tremendous size of the human brain 
C) not universal across different cultures 
D) not explicable through evolutionary insights 
A) an adaptation designed for the communication of information 
B) a byproduct of the tremendous size of the human brain 
C) not universal across different cultures 
D) not explicable through evolutionary insights

Question 7

Chisholm suggests that variations in parental mating strategy and parental investment result in differences in __________.

Accepted Answer

A) attachment security 
B) theory of mind 
C) personality characteristics 
D) none of the above 
A) attachment security 
B) theory of mind 
C) personality characteristics 
D) none of the above

Question 8

Frequency-dependent selection requires that the payoff of a strategy _____________ as its frequency ________________.

Accepted Answer

A) decreases;increases 
B) increases;increases 
C) is static;increases or decreases 
D) none of the above 
A) decreases;increases 
B) increases;increases 
C) is static;increases or decreases 
D) none of the above

Question 9

Nettle argues that very high or very low levels of various personality traits __________.

Accepted Answer

A) provide high benefits but also high costs 
B) provide greater benefits than costs 
C) are viewed as highly attractive in women 
D) are viewed as highly attractive in men 
A) provide high benefits but also high costs 
B) provide greater benefits than costs 
C) are viewed as highly attractive in women 
D) are viewed as highly attractive in men

Question 10

Which of the following is true of the effects of prestige on cultural transmission?

Accepted Answer

A) Information from individuals of high prestige is discounted if the information coincides with their self-interest. 
B) Low-prestige individuals do not affect cultural transmission. 
C) Costly signaling decreases the credibility of culturally transmitted messages. 
D) Cultural transmission occurs once evolution has stopped operating on a population. 
A) Information from individuals of high prestige is discounted if the information coincides with their self-interest. 
B) Low-prestige individuals do not affect cultural transmission. 
C) Costly signaling decreases the credibility of culturally transmitted messages. 
D) Cultural transmission occurs once evolution has stopped operating on a population.

Question 11

Ecological structure is __________.

Accepted Answer

A) the ideal set of physical conditions in which a species is designed to exist 
B) the set of statistical regularities of the human environment throughout our evolutionary history 
C) the type of neural network which best suits the nature of the problem processing 
D) none of the above 
A) the ideal set of physical conditions in which a species is designed to exist 
B) the set of statistical regularities of the human environment throughout our evolutionary history 
C) the type of neural network which best suits the nature of the problem processing 
D) none of the above

Question 12

A study of front-page newspaper articles from the past 300 years revealed that __________.

Accepted Answer

A) across cultures and time periods,the same key themes are repeated again and again 
B) the types of violence reported on the front page varies by region 
C) most of the front-page space was devoted to scientific discoveries 
D) the number of articles written about violent news stories differed tremendously over time 
A) across cultures and time periods,the same key themes are repeated again and again 
B) the types of violence reported on the front page varies by region 
C) most of the front-page space was devoted to scientific discoveries 
D) the number of articles written about violent news stories differed tremendously over time

Question 13

According to Nairne's work on memory systems,which of the following should be best recalled?

Accepted Answer

A) items for which mental images were created 
B) items evaluated for relevance to surviving a hypothetical plane crash 
C) items which were related to an actual autobiographical experience 
D) all of the above 
A) items for which mental images were created 
B) items evaluated for relevance to surviving a hypothetical plane crash 
C) items which were related to an actual autobiographical experience 
D) all of the above

Question 14

Developmental evolutionary psychology stress which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A) Children possess conditional strategies that produce different life trajectories based on early experience. 
B) Adaptations in infancy evolved to solve particular adaptive problems faced specifically during this age. 
C) Extended childhood contains design features for the prolonged learning and preparation needed to solve adaptive problems later in life. 
D) all of the above 
A) Children possess conditional strategies that produce different life trajectories based on early experience. 
B) Adaptations in infancy evolved to solve particular adaptive problems faced specifically during this age. 
C) Extended childhood contains design features for the prolonged learning and preparation needed to solve adaptive problems later in life. 
D) all of the above

Question 15

Self-handicapping is the __________.

Accepted Answer

A) tendency to present a strength about oneself privately to provide an enduring disposition responsible for success at a task 
B) tendency to make attributions that make one appear worse than others in the group 
C) tendency to present publicly a purported weakness about oneself to provide an excuse in the event one fails at a task 
D) none of the above 
A) tendency to present a strength about oneself privately to provide an enduring disposition responsible for success at a task 
B) tendency to make attributions that make one appear worse than others in the group 
C) tendency to present publicly a purported weakness about oneself to provide an excuse in the event one fails at a task 
D) none of the above

Question 16

One study found that each additional IQ point is associated with a 1 percent __________.

Accepted Answer

A) increase in relative risk of infertility 
B) reduction in relative risk of infertility 
C) reduction in relative risk of death 
D) increase in relative risk of death 
A) increase in relative risk of infertility 
B) reduction in relative risk of infertility 
C) reduction in relative risk of death 
D) increase in relative risk of death

Question 17

Evolved mechanisms can fail in all but which of the following ways?

Accepted Answer

A) activation failure 
B) context failure 
C) deactivation failure 
D) coordination failure 
A) activation failure 
B) context failure 
C) deactivation failure 
D) coordination failure

Which of the following is a documented example of reactive heritability?

All of the following forces could cause the variation inherent in individual differences except __________.

Which of the following elements is NOT universal across all languages?

Gangestad and Buss found that parasite prevalence is ___________ correlated with the importance that people in those cultures paced on physical attractiveness in a mate.

Tooby and Cosmides argue that errors in processing will result when __________.

Chomsky and Gould argue that language is __________.

Chisholm suggests that variations in parental mating strategy and parental investment result in differences in __________.

Frequency-dependent selection requires that the payoff of a strategy _ as its frequency ____.

Nettle argues that very high or very low levels of various personality traits __________.

Which of the following is true of the effects of prestige on cultural transmission?

Ecological structure is __________.

A study of front-page newspaper articles from the past 300 years revealed that __________.

According to Nairne's work on memory systems,which of the following should be best recalled?

Developmental evolutionary psychology stress which of the following?

Self-handicapping is the __________.

One study found that each additional IQ point is associated with a 1 percent __________.

Evolved mechanisms can fail in all but which of the following ways?

The Scientific Movements Leading to Evolutionary Psychology

The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Combating the Hostile Forces of Nature: Human Survival Problems

Womens Long-Term Mating Strategies

Mens Long-Term Mating Strategies

Short-Term Sexual Strategies

Problems of Parenting

Problems of Kinship

Cooperative Alliances

Aggression and Warfare

Conflict Between the Sexes

Status,prestige,and Social Dominance

Filters

Exam 13: Toward a Unified Evolutionary Psychology

Which of the following is a documented example of reactive heritability?

All of the following forces could cause the variation inherent in individual differences except __________.

Which of the following elements is NOT universal across all languages?

Gangestad and Buss found that parasite prevalence is ___________ correlated with the importance that people in those cultures paced on physical attractiveness in a mate.

Tooby and Cosmides argue that errors in processing will result when __________.

Chomsky and Gould argue that language is __________.

Chisholm suggests that variations in parental mating strategy and parental investment result in differences in __________.

Frequency-dependent selection requires that the payoff of a strategy _____________ as its frequency ________________.

Nettle argues that very high or very low levels of various personality traits __________.

Which of the following is true of the effects of prestige on cultural transmission?

Ecological structure is __________.

A study of front-page newspaper articles from the past 300 years revealed that __________.

According to Nairne's work on memory systems,which of the following should be best recalled?

Developmental evolutionary psychology stress which of the following?

Self-handicapping is the __________.

One study found that each additional IQ point is associated with a 1 percent __________.

Evolved mechanisms can fail in all but which of the following ways?

The Scientific Movements Leading to Evolutionary Psychology

The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Combating the Hostile Forces of Nature: Human Survival Problems

Womens Long-Term Mating Strategies

Mens Long-Term Mating Strategies

Short-Term Sexual Strategies

Problems of Parenting

Problems of Kinship

Cooperative Alliances

Aggression and Warfare

Conflict Between the Sexes

Status,prestige,and Social Dominance

Filters

Frequency-dependent selection requires that the payoff of a strategy _ as its frequency ____.