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Test Bank for Evolutionary Psychology; The New Science of the Mind, 7th Edition by Buss




TEST BANK
EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY; THE NEW SCIENCE OF
THE MIND, 7TH EDITION (ROUTLEDGE, 2024) BY
BUSS, ISBN NO; 9781032137919, (CHAPTERS 1-13)
COMPETE STUDY GUIDE!!!!!!!

, Test Bank for Evolutionary Psychology; The New Science of the Mind, 7th Edition by Buss



Test Bank for Evolutionary Psychology; The New Science of the Mind, 7th Edition
(Routledge, 2024) by Buss, Isbn no; 9781032137919, (Chapters 1-13) Compete Study
Guide!!!!!!!
Table of Contents
Part 1: Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology


1. The Scientific Movements Leading to Evolutionary Psychology


2. The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology


Part 2: Problems of Survival

3. Combating the Hostile Forces of Nature


Part 3: Challenges of Sex and Mating

4. Women’s Long-Term Mating Strategies

5. Men’s Long-Term Mating Strategies

6. Short-Term Sexual Strategies


Part 4: Challenges of Parenting and Kinship

7. Problems of Parenting

8. Problems of Kinship


Part 5: Problems of Group Living

9. Cooperative Alliances

10. Aggression and Warfare

11. Conflict Between the Sexes

12. Status, Prestige, and Social Dominance

13. Toward a Unified Evolutionary Psychology

, Test Bank for Evolutionary Psychology; The New Science of the Mind, 7th Edition by Buss




Test Bank for Evolutionary Psychology; The New Science of the Mind, 7th Edition
(Routledge, 2024) by Buss, Isbn no; 9781032137919, (Chapters 1-13) Compete Study
Guide!!!!!!!

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following questions is NOT a focus of evolutionary psychology?
(c)

(a) Why is the mind designed the way that it is?

(b) How do the components of the mind interact with the environment?

(c) What is the relationship between the human mind and the Big Bang?

(d) What are the functions of the components of the human mind?




2. Evolution refers to . (a)

(a) changes in gene frequency within a population over time

(b) differences between species

(c) changes over time in the shape of the human skull

(d) differences between men and women




3. Change in life forms over time was suggested . (b)

(a) first by Darwin

(b) well before Darwin’s time

(c) well after Darwin’s time

(d) first by George Williams




4. Which of the following arguments did Lamarck present? (d)

(a) Species originate from microscopic algae.

(b) Species progress toward a lower form.

(c) acquisition of inherited characteristics.

(d) inheritance of acquired characteristics.



5. According to Cuvier’s theory of catastrophism, species are . (a)

, Test Bank for Evolutionary Psychology; The New Science of the Mind, 7th Edition by Buss



(a) exterminated by sudden catastrophes and replaced by different species

(b) irradiated by sudden catastrophes, thereafter replacing other species

(c) exterminated by gradual elimination due to disease, leaving room for new
species

(d) irradiated and extinguished, and replaced by the same species




6. Which of the following clues to change in organic structure over time were
not known or noted prior to Darwin? (d)

(a) cross-species structural similarities

(b) cross-species embryological similarities

(c) apparent function of traits

(d) mechanism to explain change in organic structure over time




7. Which of the following is NOT an example of genetic drift? (a)

(a) natural selection

(b) founder effect

(c) genetic bottleneck

(d) mutation




8. Which of the following is NOT one of the three essential processes
identified by Darwin’s theory of

evolution by natural selection? (b)

(a) variation

(b) particulation

(c) selection

(d) inheritance



9. provides the ―raw materials‖ for evolution. (a)

(a) Variation

(b) Particulation

(c) Selection

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