Exam 7: Problems of Parenting

Young women tend to pursue more of a short-term mating strategy than their parents report preferring for their daughters. According to an evolutionary perspective, why do parents and daughters disagree about this?

Men __________ with a woman's child before they are married than after, suggesting that men channel investment toward the child in an effort to ___________.

Parent-offspring conflict predicts that __________.

According to parent-offspring conflict theory, which of the following conditions should produce the highest level of conflict between a mother and her child?

Aka fathers hold their children more than fathers in any other culture, but __________.

The primary caretaker hypothesis states that __________.

Which of the following sources of information is most relevant for men's assessments of their relatedness to offspring?

Which of the following is true of how parents feel about their children based on their facial similarity?

Men who rate their wives high on trustworthiness tend to __________.

fMRI studies have revealed that ______'s brains show increased activation of the brain regions linked to _____________ when viewing children's faces that resemble their own

Tinbergen experimented with nesting birds and found that their laborious efforts in removing broken eggshells from their nests functioned to __________.

Paternity uncertainty makes it _________ for males, compared with females, to invest in offspring.

If Mexican free-tailed bats fed the infants for the good of the species, then they __________.

Under ___________ parents should invest more in an ill child than in a healthy child, because ____________.

When the sex ratio is high (a surplus of men), men are ___________ their children than when there is a surplus of women.

Parents and offspring differ in the relative importance of certain mate traits. Parent-offspring conflict theory predicts that this occurs because __________.

___________ women are more likely than ___________ to commit infanticide.

Which hypothesis predicts that women will be better than men at decoding all facial expressions of emotion?

The _________ showed a particular bias for asserting a resemblance between the father and the baby.

Which hypothesis states that women possess adaptations which allow them to protect children from danger as well as maintain social ties that can provide protection?