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Florida Atlantic University PSY 4810 Chapter 13: 1)Belsky, Steinberg, and Draper noticed that, compared to securely attached children growing up in low-stress, father-present homes, insecurely attached children growing up in high-stressed, father-absent homes reached puberty   a

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PSY 4810

Chapter 13:

1)Belsky, Steinberg, and Draper noticed that, compared to securely attached children growing up in low-stress, father-present homes, insecurely attached children growing up in high-stressed, father-absent homes reached puberty

 

a.            earlier, but engaged in sexual activity later.

b.            later, but engaged in sexual activity sooner.

c.             earlier and engaged in sexual activity sooner

d.            later and engaged in sexual activity later.

 

2.            According to you textbook, which of the following mid-level theories is not a theoretical anchor for evolutionary social psychology?

 

a.            sexual selection

b.            parental investment

c.             evolved probabilistic psychological mechanism.

d.            reciprocal altruism

 

3.            According to your text, there are three competing evolutionary theories of the function of language. Which of the following is not one of those theories?

 

a.            ecological dominance/social competition hypothesis

b.            social gossip hypothesis

c.             social contract hypothesis

d.            Scheherazade hypothesis

 

 

4.            According Gangestad and Buss, the prevalence of parasites in the local ecology strongly predicts the importance people in the culture place on physical attractiveness in a long-term mate. The hypothesized reason for this relation is that

 

a.            physical attractiveness is related to health.

b.            high parasite load results in people (as adults) developing more attractive facial features, increasing the chance that someone with a high parasite load will attract a mate.

c.             physical attractiveness and parasite load are both related to high degrees of parental investment.

d.            hysical attractiveness and parasite load are both related to the propensity toward reciprocal altruism.

 

5.            According to the display hypothesis,

 

a.            children are drawn to actions of exaggerated displays and tend to imitate them, thus acquiring the rituals of their culture

b.            high-status individuals gain more attention and resources than low-status individuals

c.             infants and children who display signs of vigor and health (i.e., high levels of “display”) are more likely to be attended to and to survive than less vigorous infants and children

 

d.            culture is an emergent phenomenon arising from sexual competition among vast numbers of individuals pursuing different mating strategies in different mating arenas.

 

6.            The statement “Dysfunction occurs when the mechanism is not performing as it was designed to perform in the contexts in which it was designed to function,” best reflects

 

a.            life-history theory.

b.            evolutionary clinical psychology

c.             frequency-dependent adaptive strategies

d.            evolutionary personality psychology.