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Selection is weaker later in life because A. most reproduction has already occurredB. little empirical work has examined the effects selection had on older adults C. selection operates more strongly on women than on men
Which of the following fear responses appears to be unique to humans?A. freeze B. appease C. fright D. faint
Senescence refers to A. the deterioration of all bodily mechanisms as an organism ages B. human's fears related to adaptive problems in ancestral environments C. the process whereby a gene can have two or more effects
Which of the following is not a stage in habitat selection?A. location B. selection C. information gathering D. exploitation
The frugivory-product hypothesis predicts that?A. drinking alcohol is an adaptation designed to reduce parasite loadsB. drinking alcohol is a byproduct of adaptive preferences for decreased inhibitionC. drinking alcohol is an adaptation designed to increase the likelihood of gaining access to attractive mates D. drinking alcohol is a byproduct of adaptive preferences for ripe fruits
___ are much more likely to commit suicide when they ___A. men; experience an unexpected status gain B. men; are of old age C. women; are of old age
Which of the following is NOT an adaptation for sharing food?A. a strategy of courtshipB. a sign of closeness in relationships C. a method of unburdening oneself from food preparation D. a means of reducing conflict with rivals
Elevated testosterone early in life can ____ in later life A. have beneficial effects B. have no effects C. have detrimental effects D. be higher
Why would women possess a lower threshold for disgust than men?A. because men possess other adaptations that help them avoid disease: namely, lower sensation seeking B. because their immune systems are less robust than Men'sC. because they have to take care of infants and children who have less developed immune systems D. all of the above
Byproducts ______A. do not solve adaptive problems and have no functional designB. do not solve adaptive problems but do have functional designC. do solve adaptive problems and have no functional designD. do solve adaptive problems and do have functional design
Women who do not have pregnancy sickness during the first trimester of their pregnancy are ___ likely to experience spontaneous abortionA. three times more B. three times lessC. thirty times more D. thirty times less
The input to an evolved psychological mechanism _____ A. can be cues in the external environment or output from other psychological mechanismsB. is transformed through decision rulesC. is extremely narrow and limited in scopeD. all the above
Pregnancy sickness is an adaptation for ____A. avoiding toxins that could harm the mother B. avoiding toxins that could harm the developing baby C. decreasing demands on fathers to test their willingness to invest in offspring D. increasing the likelihood that a mother will spontaneously abort an unwanted fetus
The antimicrobial hypothesis predicts that _____A. individuals will spice foods more in colder climates B. individuals will spice foods more in hotter climatesC. individuals will be more averse to microbes in hotter climatesD. individuals will be more averse to microbes in colder climates
A key predictor of the amount of time a woman spends foraging is A. how much food her female kin have collected B. the amount of food her husband brings back from a hunt C. how well she scores on spatial tasks including location memory D. her interest and enjoyment of foraging for food
All of the following hypotheses can be generated based on Women's preference for men with high status except ____A. women will value qualities known to be linked with the acquisition of resourcesB. women will gaze more at higher-status men C. women will be interested in sexual intercourse earlier in the relationship when the male is of higher statusD. women will be less likely to divorce husbands who fail to provide resources
The showoff hypothesis and hunting hypothesis are competing explanations in that ___A. one argues that men provided for their families and the other that men provided food to non-family members to gain social benefits through increased social status B. one argues that men should spend less time hunting and the other, more C. one argues that the majority of caloric intake is through meat and the other through vegetables
Hunting can account for the emergence of all but which of the following patterns of human behavior?A. maternal investment B. sexual division of labor C. male coalitions D. social exchange
The provisioning hypothesis suggest that A. humans have been designed by natural selection to provision their offspring B. males are unique among primates in their relative parental investment in children C. males supply food to competitors to gain social status among members of their group D. females maintain closer proximity to males who share meat because they benefit from their hunting skills
Which of the following could be presented as evidence for evolved psychological mechanisms designed specifically for gathering that can be found in women today?A. children, when presented with both meat and plant products, tens to eat more plant products B. women prefer the taste of plant products more than men C. women locate specific plants within a large complex array more quickly and accurately than men