Evolutionary Psychology Article Questions

a

According to evolutionary psychologists, men prefer young women because....

a. they have greater reproductive potential compared to older women.

b. they are easier to guard from potential interlopers.

c. they are better looking than older women

d. they are more inclined to cater to men compared to older women

a

According to evolutionary psychologists, men prefer women with long hair because ...

a. a woman's health status can be more accurately judged by looking at the quality of her hair.

b. longer hair is an indication of how much effort a women puts into keeping her looks up

c. long hair is cross-culturally judged to be more beautiful

d. long hair has been connected to the degree to which a women will remain faithful to her mate

a

According to evolutionary psychologists, men favour small waists and 36-24-36 measurements in women because ....

a. these measurements tend to be seen in healthier women who are more fertile.

b. these measurements are seen in younger women who are more fecund.

c. these measurements make the female's secondary sexual characteristics more pronounced.

d. men have an unhealthy and unrealistic vision of what women should look like (Barbie)

b

According to evolutionary psychologists, men prefer women with large breasts because ...

a. large breasts produce more milk and can feed more offspring

b. large breasts allow men to more easily judge a woman's age so they can pursue younger more fecund females.

c. large breasted women tend to be more nurturing and better able to raise kids

d. men are pigs

b

According to evolutionary psychologists, men prefer women with blonde hair because ...

a. they are just a lot more fun.

b. blonde hair is associated with youth and greater reproductive value

c. blonde hair is associated with higher rates of fertility.

d. brunettes are less receptive to the advances of men.

b

According to evolutionary psychologists, men prefer blue eyes because ....

a. blue eyes are associated with genetic health

b. it is easier to detect pupil dialiation in blue eyes compared to brown ones

c. blue eyes are connected to blonde hair and men prefer blonde hair over brown

d. blue eyes are simply prettier than brown eyes. Case closed.

a

Because of cosmetic surgery, modern men are fooled into thinking women are younger, healthier and more fertile than they might actually be. What principle is related to this phenomenon?

a. The Savanna Principle c. The E.A.E. principle

b. The Cuckoldry Principle d. The stumped you principle

a

According to evolutionary psychologists, standards of beauty are ...

a. universal across individuals in a single culture and across all cultures.

b. specific to each individual culture

c. universal for females across cultures but not for males

d. universal for males across cultures but not for females

a

Prostitutes primarily cater to men because ...

a. men's reproductive success is primarily constrained by the number of women that they have sexual access to.

b. females do not have to compete with other females to gain access to men

c. men are dirty pervs

d. patriarchal societies design it this way.

b

When men view pornography their lower brains can not distinguish between reality and the images that they are viewing. This is because ....

a. men are simple creatures

b. of the Savanna Principle

c. the lower brain and the pre-frontal cortex in men do not communicate with one another

d. men are stupid

c

Movies can get away with portraying older men in intimate relationships with much younger women because of ...

a. cultural socialization

b. male dominance in the various media industries.

c. males prefer to mate with younger women and women prefer to mate with older men

d. older men can still appear attractive while older women can not

b

The American supermarket chain Safeway implemented a "superior customer service policy" in 1998. This policy required Safeway employees to look customers in the eye and smile. This policy worked fine for roughly three quarters of the time. When did this policy backfire?

a. when the employee was male and the customer was female

b. when the employee was female and the customer was male

c. when the employee was female and the customer was female

d. when the employee was male and the customer was male.

a

If a man infers that a woman is sexually interested in him when she is not, it is called a ....

a. false positive error

b. false negative error

c. true positive error

d. true negative error

c

The exact term that is used to describe a marriage of one woman to more than one man is ...

a. polygamy

b. polygyny

c. polyandry

d. polysusanna

a

The measure of female promiscuity can be determined rather precisely by measuring the ....

a. relative size of testes on the male body

b. relative size of the penis on the male body

c. relative size of feet on the male body

d. relative size of the index finger on the male body

b

Which form of marriage is very rare in human society?

a. Polygamy

b. Polyandry

c. Polygyny

d. Monogamy

a

Polygyny leads to sexual dimorphism (men are bigger than women) because ...

a. polygyny leads to more competition amongst males and bigger males win

b. polygyny leads to more female choice and females find taller men more attractive

c. polygyny leads to less competition amongst men and lazy shorter males don't bother to compete

d. all of these theories are total rubbish

a

Polygyny leads to sexual dimorphism (women are smaller and men are bigger) because ...

a. polygyny creates evolutionary pressure that makes girls mature earlier

b. smaller women are more fertile compared to taller women

c. males who compete more can monitor and protect smaller females better

d. males view smaller females as more attractive and healthy

b

According to evolutionary psychologists, monogamy emerges in a society that has ...

a. more resource inequality among men

b. less resource inequality among men

c. women with stronger voices and opinions

d. men who are naturally more egalitarian in their outlooks on life

d

According to evolutionary psychologists, which statement is true?

a. Most women benefit from monogamy

b. Most men benefit from polygyny

c. Most women benefit from polyandry

d. Most men benefit from monogamy

b

According to evolutionary psychologists, handsome men make bad husbands because ...

a. they take up too much room in the ensuite bathroom with all of their beauty products.

b. they use a "cad" mating strategy

c. they use a "dad" mating strategy

d. they will flirt too much with the wife's girlfriends and drive her around the bend.

a

Which statement is true?

a. Mothers and maternal relatives are far more likely to claim that the baby looks like dad.

b. Mothers and maternal relatives are far more likely to claim that the baby looks like mom.

c. Fathers and maternal relatives are far more likely to claim that the baby looks like mom.

d. Fathers and paternal relatives are far more likely to claim that the baby looks like mom.

a

What is "serial polygyny"?

a. having multiple wives, not simultaneously but sequentially, though a series of divorce and remarriage.

b. having multiple husbands, not simultaneously but sequentially, though a series of divorce and remarriage.

c. having multiple wives that live in separate households

d. having multiple husbands that are most often brothers or close relatives

c

What did Daly and Wilson discover when they investigated the topic of parents who kill their children?

a. They discovered that female children were most often the victims

b. They discovered that male children were most often the victims

c. They discovered that step-children were most often the victims

d. They discovered that only mentally ill parents kill their children.

b

According to evolutionary psychologists, almost all violent criminals are men because ...

a. genes responsible for testosterone production are found on the male Y chromosome and testosterone leads to aggression.

b. our polygynous past has caused men to be highly competitive for females and this leads to violence

c. men have been socialized to be violent whereas females have been socializaed to be nurturing

d. men are not clever enough to use their words to avoid conflict like women are.

b

Which statement is true according to evolutionary psychologists?

a. Evolutionary psychologists believe that the death penalty does a good job at detering men from killing one another

b. Most homicides originate from trivial altercations over matters of honour, status, and reputation.

c. Death is a worse fate than total reproductive failure for a man.

d. All of these statements are true according to evolutionary psychologists.

a

Which statement about the age-crime curve is true?

a. It is the same shape as the age-genius curve for males.

b. It is the same shape as the age-genius curve for females.

c. It peaks in early adolescence and then levels off in the 20's, 30's and beyond

d. It is the inverse of the age-genius curve for males

d

Which statement about uxoricide (the killing of one's wife) is true?

a. It is more common amongst young couples

b. It is more common amongst much older couples

c. It is more common if the wife is older than the husband

d. It is more common if the husband is older than the wife.