Question 11 pts

A key insight gleaned from evolutionary developmental psychology is __________.

that human beings face predictably different adaptive problems at various points in their
lives
that all adaptations have a developmental history
that selection can operate on the developmental timing of psychological mechanisms
all of the above
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Question 21 pts
Which of the following is a finding that supports the hypothesis that morality may be
sexually selected?
Dominant males are more likely to demonstrate altruistic morality than non-dominant
males.
Humans prefer virtuous traits in their mates.
Demonstrated morality is positively correlated with attractiveness.
all of the above
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Question 31 pts
Which of the following is a cornerstone of traditional cognitive psychology? c.
domain specificity
functional analysis
functional agnosticism
descriptive agnosticism
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Question 41 pts
Embarrassment evolved __________.
to punish those who violate social contracts
to promote appeasement and submission

to signal knowledge of an inflicted harm

to motivate the helping of others who are suffering
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Question 51 pts
Developmental evolutionary psychology stress which of the following?
Children possess conditional strategies that produce different life trajectories based on
early experience.
Adaptations in infancy evolved to solve particular adaptive problems faced specifically
during this age.
Extended childhood contains design features for the prolonged learning and preparation
needed to solve adaptive problems later in life.
all of the above
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Question 61 pts
Chomsky and Gould argue that language is __________.
an adaptation designed for the communication of information
a byproduct of the tremendous size of the human brain
not universal across different cultures
not explicable through evolutionary insights
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Question 71 pts
Ecological structure is __________.
the ideal set of physical conditions in which a species is designed to exist
the set of statistical regularities of the human environment throughout our evolutionary
history
the type of neural network which best suits the nature of the problem processing
none of the above
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Question 81 pts
Tooby and Cosmides argue that errors in processing will result when __________.
the problem is too domain-general for mechanisms to have been fashioned to deal with a
domain-general problem
individuals are presented with visual information rather than written information
there is a high degree of uncertainty
there is a mismatch between the problem presented and the problem the mechanism was
designed to solve
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Question 91 pts
Once language evolved, __________.
selection would not have limited language to its original function
selection favored the use of language to solve most adaptive problems
it became less domain specific and more domain general
all of the above
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Question 101 pts

Which of the following is true of the effects of prestige on cultural transmission?
Information from individuals of high prestige is discounted if the information coincides
with their self-interest.
Low-prestige individuals do not affect cultural transmission.
Costly signaling decreases the credibility of culturally transmitted messages.
Cultural transmission occurs once evolution has stopped operating on a population.
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Question 111 pts

Traditional ________is anchored by several core assumptions challenged by
evolutionary psychologists.
evolutionary biology

social psychology
personality psychology
cognitive psychology
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Question 121 pts

People who are high on the K-factor exhibit __________.
high risk-taking
high Machiavellianism
early attachment to their biological father
short-term mating strategy
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Question 131 pts

Cross-cultural variability in pathogen prevalence has provided support for the hypothesis
that some cultural differences are adaptive patterns of __________.
transmitted culture
evoked culture
costly signaling
reactive heritability
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Question 141 pts

The frequentist hypothesis states that __________.
some human reasoning mechanisms are designed to take as input frequency information
and produce as output probabilistic behavior
some human reasoning mechanisms are designed to take as input frequency information
and produce as output frequency information
all human reasoning mechanisms are designed to take as input frequency information and
produce as output frequency information
none of the above

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Question 151 pts

The resurrection of group selection is sometimes called __________.
multiforce selection theory
multigroup selection theory
multilevel selection theory
group adaptation theory