PSYC 341 Exam 7 - Questions, Answers and Feedback

PSYC 341 Exam 7. Question 1 1 out of 1 points Buss (1991) starts with the assumption that motivation, emotion, and personality are adaptive in that they solve problems of _______________. Selected Answer: survival and reproduction Response Feedback: correct Question 2 1 out of 1 points The differences in behavior have a biological basis and are known as __________ which lays the foundation for personality traits. Selected Answer: temperament Response Feedback: correct Question 3 1 out of 1 points Buss argues that the five main dimensions of personality (Big Five) can be best thought of as a way of summarizing the ____________. Selected Answer: social landscape Response Feedback: correct Question 4 1 out of 1 points People high in __________ are also driven and ambitious. Selected Answer: surgency Response Feedback: correct Question 5 1 out of 1 points The term ______________ was coined in 1973 by biologist Michael Ghiselin (1973), and later popularized by the anthropologist John Tooby and psychologist Leda Cosmides in the early 1990s. Selected Answer: evolutionary psychology Response Feedback: correct Question 6 1 out of 1 points Buss states that there are ______ specific main classes of mechanism. Selected Answer: two Response Feedback: correct Question 7 1 out of 1 points Buss argues for essentially the same five personality dimensions (Big Five) but with slightly different terminology. Which is not one of Buss's categories? Selected Answer: neuroticism/psychoticism Response Feedback: correct Question 8 1 out of 1 points Buss (1991) argues that of the five personality dimensions, ________________________ are the most important traits because they most directly provide answers to a host of adaptive problems. Selected Answer: surgency/dominance, agreeableness, and conscientious Response Feedback: correct Question 9 1 out of 1 points