Exam 3: The Nature and Nurture of Behavior

Genes can take two or more forms, also called __________ that account for genetic differences like eye color, height, and perhaps even behavioral differences.

Women tend to favor short-term mating strategies and as such will be less likely to agree to invitations for casual sex.

What explanation would an evolutionary psychologist give for the propensity of women to look for older, more established, high-status mates?

An environmental mismatch has occurred when

Studies of self-enhancement have revealed that members of European and American societies tend to include the adjective "special" rather than "ordinary" to describe themselves.

Lateisha's is a particularly neurotic person in relation to the rest of her family. When she has assignments due at school, she tends to procrastinate more than her older brother Cedric because she becomes so anxious. This is an example of a(n)