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Evolutionary Psychology: An Introduction 4th Edition by Lance Workman and Will Reader. ISBN-10 6, ISBN-13 978-8. All Chapters 1-14 Qs+Answer Key. TEST BANK TABLE OF CONTENTS Cha pter 1: Beginning Your Financial Journey: The Interior Finance Point Chapter 2: Tools for Your Financial Journey Chapter ...
Testbank for Evolutionary Psychology 4th edition, by Workman and Reader Chapter 1 1. Natural Selection depends on: [a] The inheritance of acquired characteristics [b] Heritable variation and differential reproduction [c] Both a and b [d] Neither a nor b 2. The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics is also known as : [a] Lamarkianism [b] Dawinism [c] Lysenkoism [d] Mendelism 3. An important part on Mendel’s notion of inheritance is that it : [a] Integrated [b] Continuous [c] Analogical [d] Particulate 4. Who suggested ‘biology will cannibalise psychology’: [a] Dawkins [b] Wilson [c] Thornhill & Pa lmer [d] Trivers 5. The EEA refers to: [a] Ecological environment of adaptation [b] Evolutionary environment of adaptation [c] Environment of evolutionary adaptatio n [d] Evolutionary ecology of adaptation 6. Eugenics refers to [a] The process of genetic transmission [b] Selective breeding for the good of the species [c] Indiscriminate genocide [d] The inheritance of acquired characteristics 7. What is the Great Chain of being? [a] The view that there is a natural hierarchy in life [b] Another term for decent with modification [c] The view that one can trace all organisms back to a single common ancestor [d] The fact that all creatures are genetically related to one another 8. ‘Instinctual drift’ ( Breland and Breland , 1961) shows that : [a] Animals can be trained to do almost anything [b] Learning is a species -general process [c] Learning is constrained by species -specific 'instincts' [d] Positive reinforcement is more effective than punishment 9. The term 'evolutionary psychology' was first coined by [a] Charles Darwin [b] E.O. Wilson [c] Richard Dawkins [d] John Tooby and Leda Cosmides 10. Which of the following is a core principle of evolutionary psychology? [a] All beha viours are adaptive [b] All behaviours are hard -wired [c] Culture and learning are of little importance [d] None of the above 11. If a plant with a white flower is crossed with a plant with a red flower and we find the offspring are all either white or red ne ver pink this is evidence for [a] The particulate nature of inheritance [b] The blending nature of inheritance [c] Incomplete dominance [d] Heterozygous advantage 12. The modern synthesis is a combination of the work of which two people? [a] Darwin and Mendel [b] Darwin and Wallace [c] Lamark and Mendel [d] Dawkins and Darwin 13. “[It] is not a place or a habitat, or even a time period. It is a statistical composite of the adaptation -relevant properties of ancestral environments encountered by members of an cestral populations, weighted by their frequency and fitness -consequences.” What is being referred to here? [a] The Great Chain of being [b] The Upper Pleistocene [c] The stone age [d] The EEA 14. The 'Spandrel's of San Marco' (Gould & Lewontin, 1979) is a criticism of what? [a] Innateness [b] Inheritance [c] Adaptationism [d] Determinism 15. What is the naturalistic fallacy? [a] Something must be good because it is natural [b] Something must be natural because it is good [c] We can understand nature by experimentation [d] We cannot understand nature by experimentation 16. The view that the mind is made up of domain -specific mental modules is central to what? [a] All evolutionary psychology [b] Sociobiology [c] Behavioural ecology [d] The Santa -Barbara Scho ol 17. Phrenology is most similar to which of Tooby and Cosmides's principles? [a] Adaptiveness [b] Innateness [c] Modularity [d] The EEA 18. Evolution was first proposed by [a] The Ancient Greeks [b] The Babylonians [c] Erasmus Darwin [d] Charles Darwin 19. Which of the following is an ultimate question? [a] Why do we find faeces disgusting? [b] How does schizophrenia develop? [c] Are men better at spatial tasks than women? [d] Which part of the brain is responsible for love? 20. Which of the following is NOT an assumption of the cultural relativist tradition? [a] Culture is an autonomous force [b] Learning processes are domain specific [c] Humans are born blank slates [d] Human behaviour is infinitely malleable
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