Question 11 pts

Which of the following hypotheses proposes that language evolved via sexual selection?

social gossip hypothesis

social contract hypothesis
Scheherazade hypothesis
information exchange hypothesis
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Question 21 pts
Gangestad and Buss found that parasite prevalence is ___________ correlated with the importance
that people in those cultures paced on physical attractiveness in a mate.

positively
negatively
not
causally
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Question 31 pts
Chomsky and Gould argue that language is __________.

an adaptation designed for the communication of information

a byproduct of the tremendous size of the human brain
not universal across different cultures
not explicable through evolutionary insights
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Question 41 pts
The frequentist hypothesis states that __________.

some human reasoning mechanisms are designed to take as input frequency information
and produce as output probabilistic behavior
some human reasoning mechanisms are designed to take as input frequency information
and produce as output frequency information
all human reasoning mechanisms are designed to take as input frequency information
and produce as output frequency information
none of the above
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Question 51 pts
The repulsion of incest evolved __________.

to prevent inbreeding
to encourage inbreeding
to increase rates of inbreeding suppression
in response to sex between cousins
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Question 61 pts
Which of the following is a cornerstone of traditional cognitive psychology? c.

domain specificity
functional analysis
functional agnosticism
descriptive agnosticism
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Question 71 pts
People who are high on the K-factor exhibit __________.

high risk-taking
high Machiavellianism
early attachment to their biological father
short-term mating strategy
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Question 81 pts
Tooby and Cosmides argue that errors in processing will result when __________.

the problem is too domain-general for mechanisms to have been fashioned to deal with
a domain-general problem
individuals are presented with visual information rather than written information
there is a high degree of uncertainty
there is a mismatch between the problem presented and the problem the mechanism was
designed to solve
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Question 91 pts
Once language evolved, __________.

selection would not have limited language to its original function

selection favored the use of language to solve most adaptive problems
it became less domain specific and more domain general

all of the above

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Question 101 pts

Which of the following is a finding that supports the hypothesis that morality may be sexually selected?

Dominant males are more likely to demonstrate altruistic morality than non-dominant
males.
Humans prefer virtuous traits in their mates.
Demonstrated morality is positively correlated with attractiveness.
all of the above
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Question 111 pts

Traditional ________is anchored by several core assumptions challenged by evolutionary
psychologists.

evolutionary biology
social psychology
personality psychology
cognitive psychology
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Question 121 pts

A computational theory __________.

cannot specify the function of an information-processing device

provides a shortcut to conducting the scientific experiments to test hypotheses
specifies what a problem is and why there is a device to solve it
broadens the search space of successful solutions to a problem
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Question 131 pts

All of the following forces could cause the variation inherent in individual differences except
__________.

individual variation in exposure to certain environmental insults

mutation load
frequency dependent selection
group selection
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Question 141 pts

Rather than ___________, humans have _________________.

domain-specific reasoning capabilities; domain-general reasoning capabilities

multiple intelligences; a general intelligence
a general ability to reason; many specialized abilities to reason
content-specific psychological mechanisms; content-general psychological mechanisms
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Question 151 pts

The deadly innovations hypothesis proposes all of the following forces EXCEPT __________.

founder effects
double jeopardy
spiraling complexity
migration ratchet