Exam 3: The Nature and Nurture of Behavior

Sociocultural psychologists use social role theory to explain the transmission of prototypical behaviors seen in men and women surrounding mating. Describe two specific research results that illustrate such prototypical behavior.

Eva has blonde hair, but her sister, Cynthia, has brown hair. What is responsible for the sisters' different hair colors?

Geert Hofstede employed this method in order to establish specific dimensions of behavior that varied from culture to culture.

What do social-role theorists mean when they say there is a double standard for sexual behavior?

Though as they age, men tend to be attracted to women at the peak of fertility, men also

A passive gene-environment correlation will probably occur

Humans are motivated to maintain a positive view of themselves, and to focus on their good qualities while downplaying the bad. This known as

Evolutionary psychologists have found that the evolutionary differences between men and women are primarily in areas related to all of the following, EXCEPT:

Studies of pairs of twins like the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart are examples of

One way to continue to improve the scientific conclusions drawn by evolutionary psychologists would be to

According to Charles Darwin, species can conceivably reproduce in unlimited quantities but they do not because

The focus much of the research on evolutionary psychology is on the universality of a number of psychological adaptations, especially those that pertain to parenting and human sexual behavior.

This concept is in place when men dominate a large majority of uppermost positions in political and social hierarchies.

According to evolutionary psychologists females are thought to be more picky in their choice of a mate because

An organism with a particular adaptation that aids survival, like camouflage, is likely to be passed on to future generations due to natural selection.

Some gene-environment correlations are "active" in that an individual

The results of the Clark and Hatfield (1989) study can be explained by social roles such that

Richie was born with exceptional intellectual aptitude, but his teachers are overworked and tend to ignore his attempts to participate in class. Which of the following is most likely given the relationship between genes and the environment?

Susan Carey's research illustrated that children were very likely to attribute human characteristics to insects, a phenomenon known as

The versions of genes that humans inherit are called