Exam 7: Problems of Parenting

Which of the following supports the hypothesis that men's mating and parenting efforts are traded off against one another?

A woman's successful promotion of a man's belief that he is the father of her offspring should _____ his willingness to invest in that child.

The mating opportunity cost hypothesis states that __________.

When viewing infant faces that had been morphed together with their own face, _____ indicated ____________.

Flinn found that stepfathers' interactions with stepchildren were __________ and _________ than genetic fathers' interactions with their children.

Offspring tend to prefer ____________ in their mates more than parents who prefer ____________ more than offspring in the offspring's mate.

In one twin study, by eight months after giving birth, every single mother had directed more positive maternal behavior toward __________.

The Trivers-Willard hypothesis predicts that __________.

Parent-offspring conflict theory was proposed by __________.

Perilloux and colleagues examined the phenomenon of daughter guarding from an evolutionary perspective. Their results indicated that __________.

Parent-offspring conflict theory identified the important arena of __________.

Anderson, Kaplan, and Lancaster found that genetic offspring were ___________ than stepchildren to receive parental funding for college.

Paternity uncertainty implies __________.

Daly and Wilson found that mother's remarks about a baby's resemblance to the father were _______as frequent as her remarks about the baby's resemblance to her.

When viewing pictures of babies, _________________; when viewing pictures of babies with their mothers, _____________________.

Daly and Wilson found that children living with one genetic parent and one stepparent were about ___ times more likely to be physically abused than children living with both genetic parents.

Men who are more attractive __________.

As parents age, parents _____________ to children precisely when the children___________ to the parents.

Aka men of higher status devote___________ effort holding their infants than do men of lower status.

In a study of adolescents, researchers found that suicide attempts __________.