Exam 11: Adulthood, and Reflections on Developmental Issues

The sexual overperception bias is strongest among ________ who require ________ emotional closeness before intercourse.

According to evolutionary psychologists,our predisposition to overconsume fatty junk foods most clearly illustrates that we are biologically prepared to behave in ways that promoted the ________ of our ancestors.

Several organisms from a strain of bacteria infecting hospital patients inherited a mutation that increased their resistance to the hospital's antibacterial drugs.Over time,the drug-resistant bacteria increasingly outnumbered the bacteria without the mutation.This best illustrates

Professor Archibald suggests that men are more likely than women to initiate casual sex because this has historically served to be a more successful reproductive strategy for men than for women.The professor's suggestion best illustrates

If a genetically based attraction to beautiful people contributes to survival,that trait will likely be passed on to subsequent generations.This best illustrates

Our shared human genome is the complete

Heterosexual women are most attracted to tall men with slim waists and broad shoulders.Evolutionary psychology most clearly attributes this preference to the fact that these physical characteristics are associated with

Evolutionary psychologists would be most likely to predict that

Which of the following is a major source of genetic diversity?

Many would consider it ironic that men are more likely than women to feel comfortable about having casual sex with multiple partners and yet at the same time more likely to feel jealous and angry if a mate has sex with someone else.How might evolutionary psychology explain these gender differences? What are the strengths and weaknesses of this evolutionary explanation?

An evolutionary psychologist would suggest that people are genetically predisposed to

Evolutionary psychology most clearly suggests that human behavioral and biological similarities arise from our shared

According to evolutionary psychology,men's tendency to pair widely and women's tendency to pair wisely are best explained by the fact that these differing strategies have contributed to men's and women's

Compared with women,men are more likely to

Evolutionary psychologists are most likely to suggest that "a universal moral grammar" arises from our shared human

According to evolutionary psychologists,behaviors that promote reproductive success are likely to be

Evolutionary psychologists would be most likely to predict that 40-year-old single men will seek to marry women who are ________ than they are.

A random error in gene replication is known as a(n)

The researchers who domesticated foxes through selective mating were

Which approach is most likely to attribute gender differences in mating preferences to the impact of watching and imitating readily available social scripts?