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LS 15 PHELAN UCLA FINAL EXAM 2025| BRAND NEW
ACTUAL EXAM WITH 100% VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT SOLUTIONS| GUARANTEED VALUE
PACK| ACE YOUR GRADES.
Why is the rate and direction of change more important than absolute levels how
does this relate to - (answers)50% of all suicides in prison happen in 1st 2 weeks
Extreme depression cuz it's a big change
If they make it thru things improve
Our happiness is relative to our basic feelings
Why are emotions designed to be less permanent than they feel - (answers)Brain
states that alter your behavior in ways beneficial to your genes
Sitting being happy al the time is not consistent w evolution
Motivate u to do something so u can be motivated again once they reset
Describe 3 lines of evidence to support the idea that emotions are tools used to
motivate our behavior - (answers)Ex: guilt, jealousy, desire
Guilt motivates you to not be selfish
Desire motivates you to act in a certain way to achieve your goals
Emotions like a lack of happiness can motivate you to take drugs
Sexual jealousy: if u are scared of someone cheating on you, you are going to step
up your game
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Using an example describe the interplay between culture and biology -
(answers)Culture is learning things its tech, education, etc
Ex: all of us have been reproductively mature for a while now, and very few of us
have children. Bio sets us up to be reproductively mature at age 13.
Ex: ppl start having sex at age 16 but birth control prevents them from having kids
You are nudged in certain places but culture decides how you act on these urges
What is the fundamental reproductive equation what does it reveal about culture
and biology - (answers)Sex = pregnancy = babies = maternal child care = loss of
female economic opportunity = loss of female political power
It's hard to fight biological urges
Sex does not have to equal pregnancy -> rubber
Pregnancy does not have to equal babies -> surgery
Babies do not have to equal maternal child care -> rubber nipples
Maternal childcare does not have to equal loss of female economic opportunity ->
daycare
Loss of female economic opportunity does not have to equal loss of female
political power ->
The cultural idea that the person in power doesn't need to have the most money
basically democracy
There are certain biological constraints on how we r built that unchecked can lead
to undesirable outcomes
Culture can block every step of the fundamental reproductive equation
The invention of vulcanized rubber can stop that equation at 3 dif places
LS 15 PHELAN UCLA FINAL EXAM 2025| BRAND NEW
ACTUAL EXAM WITH 100% VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT SOLUTIONS| GUARANTEED VALUE
PACK| ACE YOUR GRADES.
Why is the rate and direction of change more important than absolute levels how
does this relate to - (answers)50% of all suicides in prison happen in 1st 2 weeks
Extreme depression cuz it's a big change
If they make it thru things improve
Our happiness is relative to our basic feelings
Why are emotions designed to be less permanent than they feel - (answers)Brain
states that alter your behavior in ways beneficial to your genes
Sitting being happy al the time is not consistent w evolution
Motivate u to do something so u can be motivated again once they reset
Describe 3 lines of evidence to support the idea that emotions are tools used to
motivate our behavior - (answers)Ex: guilt, jealousy, desire
Guilt motivates you to not be selfish
Desire motivates you to act in a certain way to achieve your goals
Emotions like a lack of happiness can motivate you to take drugs
Sexual jealousy: if u are scared of someone cheating on you, you are going to step
up your game
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Using an example describe the interplay between culture and biology -
(answers)Culture is learning things its tech, education, etc
Ex: all of us have been reproductively mature for a while now, and very few of us
have children. Bio sets us up to be reproductively mature at age 13.
Ex: ppl start having sex at age 16 but birth control prevents them from having kids
You are nudged in certain places but culture decides how you act on these urges
What is the fundamental reproductive equation what does it reveal about culture
and biology - (answers)Sex = pregnancy = babies = maternal child care = loss of
female economic opportunity = loss of female political power
It's hard to fight biological urges
Sex does not have to equal pregnancy -> rubber
Pregnancy does not have to equal babies -> surgery
Babies do not have to equal maternal child care -> rubber nipples
Maternal childcare does not have to equal loss of female economic opportunity ->
daycare
Loss of female economic opportunity does not have to equal loss of female
political power ->
The cultural idea that the person in power doesn't need to have the most money
basically democracy
There are certain biological constraints on how we r built that unchecked can lead
to undesirable outcomes
Culture can block every step of the fundamental reproductive equation
The invention of vulcanized rubber can stop that equation at 3 dif places
