Question 1

Which hypothesis predicts that women will be better than men at decoding all facial expressions of emotion?

Accepted Answer

A)  fitness threat hypothesis
B)  attachment promotion hypothesis
C)  tend-and-befriend hypothesis
D)  alloparenting hypothesis

Question 2

Evolved mechanisms of parental care should be sensitive to all of the following EXCEPT __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  alternative uses of the resources available to invest in offspring
B)  ability of the offspring to convert parental care into fitness
C)  likelihood that offspring are full siblings
D)  gGenetic relatedness of parent to offspring

Question 3

Aka fathers hold their children more than fathers in any other culture,but __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  they have the highest rates of paternity certainty
B)  they have the highest rates of paternity uncertainty
C)  they hold their children significantly less than Aka mothers
D)  fathers resent their time spent holding because they claim that they would rather be hunting

Question 4

Under ___________ parents should invest more in an ill child than in a healthy child,because ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  some conditions;the same unit of investment benefits the ill child more than the healthy child
B)  all conditions;the same unit of investment benefits the ill child more than the healthy child
C)  most conditions;the same unit of investment benefits the ill child more than the healthy child
D)  some conditions;the same unit of investment does not benefit the ill child more than the healthy child

Question 5

Paternity uncertainty makes it _________ for males,compared with females,to invest in offspring.

Accepted Answer

A)  more profitable
B)  more difficult
C)  less profitable
D)  less difficult

Question 6

fMRI studies have revealed that ______'s brains show increased activation of the brain regions linked to _____________ when viewing children's faces that resemble their own

Accepted Answer

A)  men;inhibiting negative responses
B)  men;reward centers
C)  women;inhibiting negative responses
D)  women;reward centers

Question 7

The mating opportunity cost hypothesis states that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  the costs associated with greater parental investment are greater for the physically larger sex
B)  because males have uncertainty in their genetic relatedness to offspring,they should seek additional mating opportunities
C)  the costs of missed reproductive opportunities as a result of investment in offspring are greater for females than for males
D)  the costs of missed mating opportunities as a result of investment in offspring are greater for males than for females

Question 8

When viewing infant faces that had been morphed together with their own face,_____ indicated ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  women;lower maternal certainty
B)  women;interest in meeting the child's father
C)  men;interest in meeting the child's mother
D)  men;they would be least resentful paying child support to that child

Question 9

A woman's successful promotion of a man's belief that he is the father of her offspring should _____ his willingness to invest in that child.

Accepted Answer

A)  decrease
B)  increase
C)  detract from
D)  mediate

Question 10

The risk of being murdered by a genetic parent or stepparent ____________ with the age of the child.

Accepted Answer

A)  increases slightly
B)  does not change
C)  decreases
D)  increases

Question 11

Offspring tend to prefer ____________ in their mates more than parents who prefer ____________ more than offspring in the offspring's mate.

Accepted Answer

A)  exciting personality;physical attractiveness
B)  good family background;religiosity
C)  physical attractiveness;good family background
D)  religiosity;exciting personality

Question 12

Which of the following supports the hypothesis that men's mating and parenting efforts are traded off against one another?

Accepted Answer

A)  Men's self-perceived mate value is positively correlated with flirting behavior and negatively correlated with attention paid to offspring.
B)  Women prefer,as long-term mates,men who are more paternal.
C)  Men who are married with children report lower energy levels than single men.
D)  Children feel more emotionally close to men who are lower in mate value.

Question 13

As parents age,parents _____________ to children precisely when the children___________ to the parents.

Accepted Answer

A)  are less and less valuable;are more and more valuable
B)  are more important;are less important
C)  are more and more valuable;are less and less valuable
D)  are less important;are less important

Question 14

Daly and Wilson found that children living with one genetic parent and one stepparent were about ___ times more likely to be physically abused than children living with both genetic parents.

Accepted Answer

A)  five
B)  ten
C)  twenty
D)  forty

Question 15

Aka men of higher status devote___________ effort holding their infants than do men of lower status.

Accepted Answer

A)  more than double the
B)  more than five times the
C)  less than half of the
D)  five times less

Question 16

Perilloux and colleagues examined the phenomenon of daughter guarding from an evolutionary perspective.Their results indicated that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  parents guard sons and daughters equally in social and mating contexts but guard daughters more from physical injury
B)  parents guard sons and daughters equally against physical injury but guard daughters more in social and mating contexts
C)  parents allow daughters to physically aggress against their brothers,but will not allow sons to physically aggress against their sisters
D)  parents report more fear of their daughters than their sons

Question 17

The primary caretaker hypothesis states that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  whichever parent engages in most of the caretaking will also be the one more likely to engage in extra-pair mating
B)  women's psychological mechanisms for caretaking remain dormant until the birth of their first child
C)  men have adaptations that increase the chances of their children's survival
D)  women have adaptations that increase the chances of their children's survival

Question 18

If Mexican free-tailed bats fed the infants for the good of the species,then they __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  would not move their newly hatched chicks' broken egg shells
B)  would not live in crèches of thousands or millions of bats
C)  would feed their own young just as often as the offspring of their peers
D)  would feed their own young at greater rates than their competitor's young

Question 19

Parent-offspring conflict theory was proposed by __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Hamilton
B)  Daly
C)  Haig
D)  Trivers

Question 20

The Trivers-Willard hypothesis predicts that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  in polyandrous mating systems,parents will bias investment toward daughters in better conditions
B)  parents will invest more in sons when the parents are in good condition
C)  in polyandrous mating systems,parents will bias investment toward sons in poor conditions
D)  parents will invest more in sons when the parents are in poor conditions

Exam 7: Problems of Parenting

The primary caretaker hypothesis states that __________.

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If Mexican free-tailed bats fed the infants for the good of the species,then they __________.

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Aka fathers hold their children more than fathers in any other culture,but __________.

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A woman's successful promotion of a man's belief that he is the father of her offspring should _____ his willingness to invest in that child.

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The risk of being murdered by a genetic parent or stepparent ____________ with the age of the child.

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Under ___________ parents should invest more in an ill child than in a healthy child,because ____________.

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When viewing infant faces that had been morphed together with their own face,_____ indicated ____________.

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As parents age,parents _____________ to children precisely when the children___________ to the parents.

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The mating opportunity cost hypothesis states that __________.

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Which of the following supports the hypothesis that men's mating and parenting efforts are traded off against one another?

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fMRI studies have revealed that ______'s brains show increased activation of the brain regions linked to _____________ when viewing children's faces that resemble their own

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Parent-offspring conflict theory was proposed by __________.

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Aka men of higher status devote___________ effort holding their infants than do men of lower status.

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Offspring tend to prefer ____________ in their mates more than parents who prefer ____________ more than offspring in the offspring's mate.

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The Trivers-Willard hypothesis predicts that __________.

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Evolved mechanisms of parental care should be sensitive to all of the following EXCEPT __________.

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Daly and Wilson found that children living with one genetic parent and one stepparent were about ___ times more likely to be physically abused than children living with both genetic parents.

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Paternity uncertainty makes it _________ for males,compared with females,to invest in offspring.

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Perilloux and colleagues examined the phenomenon of daughter guarding from an evolutionary perspective.Their results indicated that __________.

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Which hypothesis predicts that women will be better than men at decoding all facial expressions of emotion?

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