AO3 evolution

Question 1

Who conducted esearch to support the evolutionary explanation for partner preferences?

Answer 1

Buss

Question 2

What did Buss do?

Answer 2

Buss carried out a survey on over 10,000 participants from 33 countries and asked questions relating to a variety of attributes that evolutionary theory predicts are important in partner preferences

Question 3

What did Buss find?

Answer 3

Buss found that males prefer youthful, physically attractive females, whereas females prefer resources such as good finances and ambitious males

Question 4

What does Buss’ research show?

Answer 4

Buss’ research shows that universal sex differences in sexual selection supporting predictions of partner preferences made by the evolutionary explanation

Question 5

Who else conducted research to support the evolutionary explanation?

Answer 5

Clarke and Hatfield

Question 6

What was the procedure of Clarke and Hatfield’s research?

Answer 6

They had males and females approach members of the opposite sex and asked the question, “will you have sex with me?”.

Question 7

What did Clarke and Hatfield find?

Answer 7

Clarke and Hatfield found that 75% of males said yes to the female whereas 0% of females said yes to the male.

Question 8

How does Clarke and Hatfield support the differences in partner preference?

Answer 8

It demonstrates that females are choosy when it comes to selecting sexual partners and males have evolved a different strategy to ensure reproductive success

Question 9

What is a limitation of the evolutionary explanation for partner preferences?

Answer 9

It lacks temporal validity

Question 10

Why does evolutionary theiory lack temporal validity?

Answer 10

It lacks temporal validity because it can’t be used to explain modern relationships

Question 11

What can’t evolutionary theory not be used to explain?

Answer 11

it can’t be used to explain homosexuality, individuals who do not want children and women who choose to have abortions as evolutionary explanation assumes all relationships are motivated by a desire to reproduce

Question 12

Why is the evolutionary explanation limited?

Answer 12

It can’t be used to solely explain the relationship between sexual selection and human reproductive behaviour as otherwise these individual preferences would not exist

Question 13

What can be used as a counterargument for evolutionary theory?

Answer 13

Research conducted by Lawson found that homosexual men and women differ just the same as they do in heterosexual men and women.