the Mind 6th Edition by David M. Buss Chapters 1-13
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Part 1 - Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology
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Chapter 1 - The Scientific Movements Leading to Evolutionary Psychology
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Chapter 2 - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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Part 2 - Problems of Survival
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Chapter 3 - Combating the Hostile Forces of Nature
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Part 3 - Challenges of Sex and Mating
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Chapter 4 - Women’s Long-Term Mating strategies
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Chapter 5 - Men’s Long-Term Mating Strategies
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Chapter 6 - Short-Term Sexual Strategies
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Part 4 - Challenges of Parenting and Kinship
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Chapter 7 - Problems of Parenting
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Chapter 8 - Problems of Kinship
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Part 5 - Problems of Group Living
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Chapter 9 - Cooperative Alliances
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Chapter 10 - Aggression and Warfare
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Chapter 11 - Conflict between the Sexes
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,Chapter 12 - Status, Prestige, and Social Dominance
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Chapter 13 - Toward a Unified Evolutionary Psychology
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Multiple Choice Questions
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1. Which of the following questions is NOT a focus of evolutionary psychology? (c)
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(a) Why is the mind designed the way that it is?
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(b) How do the components of the mind interact with the environment?
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(c) What is the relationship between the human mind and the Big Bang?
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(d) What are the functions of the components of the human mind?
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2. Evolution refers to . (a) fd fd fd fd
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(c) changes over time in the shape of the human skull fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd
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3. Change in life forms over time was suggested
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4. Which of the following arguments did Lamarck present? (d)
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(a) Species originate from microscopic algae. fd fd fd fd
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(c) acquisition of inherited characteristics. fd fd fd
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5. According to Cuvier’s theory of catastrophism, species are
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(a) exterminated by sudden catastrophes and replaced by different specie
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(c) exterminated by gradual elimination due to disease, leaving room for new species fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd
(d) irradiated and extinguished, and replaced by the same species fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd
6. Which of the following clues to change in organic structure over time were not known or
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noted prior to Darwin? (d)
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(a) cross-species structural similarities fd fd
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7. Which of the following is NOT an example of genetic drift? (a)
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(d) mutation
8. Which of the following is NOT one of the three essential processes identified by Darwi
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n’s theory of evolution by natural selection? (b)
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(a) variation
(b) particulation
(c) selection
(d) inheritance