In recent years, evolutionary psychologists have focused most attention on which of the following topics?
a. racial/ethnic differences
b. gender differences
c. age differences
d. language differences
Answer: B
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Culture and Nature
- Some of the problems that are unique to humans, like suicide and genocide, are due to ____.
- According to your text, which of the following makes us most human?
- Which of the following famous social psychological studies best illustrates the idea that humans tend to "put people first"?
- Recall Solomon Asch's famous line-judging studies. In these studies, research subjects were asked to make judgments about unambiguous stimuli. They were asked to do this while in the presence of confederates who consistently gave incorrect responses. According to the textbook, one of the important conclusions to be drawn from Asch's research is that ____.
- If culture were a business, it would probably make the MOST sense to think of it as ____.
- Compared to most animals, when humans need information they show a strong tendency ____.
- Compared to other animals' sensory organs, humans' sensory organs are especially good at ____.
- Compared to the sensory organs of other animals, humans' sensory organs are particularly well-suited for ____.
- One of the ways that humans are different from other species is that our sensory organs are ____.
- In describing general patterns in human nature, the textbook discusses the notion of "putting people first." This is the idea that most of the time, ____.
- Suppose that you were trying to find of a good place to eat. Research suggests that if you were a dog, you would ____, but that if you were a human you would ____.
- Olivia is thinking about applying to law school, but doesn't have a good feeling for how much she would enjoy it and whether law would be the right career path for her. If she is like most people, she will be most likely to start exploring the idea of law school by ____.
- If Barack Obama is like most politicians, then he probably ____.
- Politicians frequently face the trade-off of ____ to help assure that they will get elected versus ____ and possibly jeopardizing their chances of getting reelected.
- In speeches about political policies, politicians tend to ____.
- Do politicians acknowledge the trade-offs that are inherent to political decisions?
- When faced with a time trade-off, nature tends to ____.
- For most people, going to college requires sacrificing immediate comforts and pleasures for the sake of a better future life. That is, for most people, college is ____.
- Researchers who study "delay of gratification" are essentially studying ____.
- Which of the following is the most descriptive shorthand term for the trade-off involved in "delay of gratification" research?
- Dr. Snooky is administering a psychological test to a group of children. She is offering them one cookie now, or three cookies if they can wait 20 minutes. Dr. Snooky is probably testing the children's' ____.
- When researchers have studied delay of gratification using simple tasks with food rewards, they have found that chimpanzees are _____.
- Natural selection least favors people caring about the ____.
- In general, one could accurately say that humans have evolved to ____.
- In general, social psychologists believe that natural selection happens ____