Chapter 3

Question 1

Human nature

Answer 1

behavioral, motivational, and emotional similarity among people that results from their common evolution history.

Question 2

Psychological Mechanisms

Answer 2

evolved through natural selection to solve specific problems of adaption to the environment.

Question 3

Universal motives

Answer 3

are a particular type of psychological mechanism and will be reserved for the commonality of motives among humans that has evolved over their evolutionary history.

Question 4

Genes

Answer 4

parts of a persons DNA content that provide the information necessary for the construction of proteins, which form the building blocks of the various neurological structures that make up the brain and nervous system.

Question 5

Romantic Love

Answer 5

a strong attachment that individuals have for one another and promotes long-term commitment.

Question 6

Mate value

Answer 6

Characteristics that are desired by the other sex

Question 7

Biosocial theory

Answer 7

change in emphasis from evolution to culture

Question 8

Structural powerless hypthesis

Answer 8

both men and women want the same financial resources.

Question 9

Mate poaching

Answer 9

refers to the attempt to attract someone who is already in a romantic relationship in order to form either a short or long term relationship with the poached individual.

Question 10

Emotional infidelity

Answer 10

Imaging your partner forming a deep emotional attachment to the person

Question 11

Sexual infidelity

Answer 11

imagining your partner enjoying passionate sexual intercourse with that other persons.

Question 12

Sexual desire

Answer 12

universal motive that induces sexual behavior for the production of offspring

Question 13

Evolutionary history

Answer 13

refers to a persons genetic make up or nature and personal history is the persons experiences or nurture.

Question 14

What women find attractive

Answer 14

Status, Dominance, resources (abilities)

Question 15

What men find attractive

Answer 15

Traits of reproductive value. (physical, young, good health)

Question 16

Inis Beag

Answer 16

Little sexual activity, high anxiety about sex or things related to sex

Question 17

Dani

Answer 17

Have little sex and no anxiety.

Question 18

Mangaia

Answer 18

Lots of sex and sexual activity little anxiety

Question 19

Mehinaku

Answer 19

Lots of anxiety Lost of sex

Question 20

Evolution significance of romantic love

Answer 20

It serves as the glue that binds a couple together

Question 21

Evolutionary history as a source of motivation focus on what?

Answer 21

behavior humans have in common in spite of vast social and cultural differences

Question 22

Sir Francis Galton

Answer 22

Nuture vs. nature

Question 23

Fear

Answer 23

evolved to motivate behavior to escape or avoid

Question 24

Universals

Answer 24

traits that are found in almost all cultures and societies

Question 25

Brown

Answer 25

Universal

Question 26

Orgasm

Answer 26

an incentive and reinforcer for sexual intercourse

Question 27

Reagan 1998 2000

Answer 27

features that define romantic love-rate of sexual desire and passion

Question 28

Point of natural selection

Answer 28

ensure survival and longevity

Question 29

Short term cooperation

Answer 29

required for sexual intercourse that leads to conception

Question 30

Long term cooperation

Answer 30

necessary for care of any infants

Question 31

3 features/characteristics that make a face attractive

Answer 31

symmetrical, sexual dimorphism, facial configurations

Question 32

Rhodes

Answer 32

Face attractiveness has average lip, eye and nose size

Question 33

Jokela

Answer 33

number of offspring is associate with the degree of attractiveness

Question 34

Zebrowitz and Rhodes

Answer 34

physical appearance suggest the possibility of bad genes. -genes that signal potential disease and low inttellgence

Question 35

Universality of beauty and health

Answer 35

People agree who is beautiful and who is not within their culture.

Question 36

Three reasons for universality of beauty and health

Answer 36

People agree who is beautiful and not within their culture. 2 agree on standards of beauty for faces in cultures other then their own. 3 people agree on the degree of attractiveness among children

Question 37

Parental investment for women

Answer 37

carry child 38 weeks.

Question 38

What a women looks for in a long term mate

Answer 38

ambition and industriousness resourses and committment good financial prospects

Question 39

What a man looks for in a long term mate

Answer 39

Young and good looks - they are considered signs of health and fertility

Question 40

Three mate value characteristics

Answer 40

ambitious- good financial- good looks

Question 41

Biosocial theory

Answer 41

stresses interaction between social experiences and the evolved sex difference of strength and reproductive capacity.

Question 42

Wood and eagly

Answer 42

biological sex differences in strength and reproductive capacity interact with societal expectations that men should have greater power and status while women should accommodate to a lesser role.

Question 43

BBC british broadasting coporation

Answer 43

survey regarding rating of physical and mental traits

Question 44

Real fear define

Answer 44

the interaction between evolutionary history and personal histery with dangerous stimuli

Question 45

What did Valentine conclude about fear?

Answer 45

it is an instinct lurking ready to appear when the occasion arises.

Question 46

Contraprepared behaviors

Answer 46

are one that occcure with difficulty and only after much experience.

Question 47

Omnivorous

Answer 47

Able to eat a variety of foods.

Question 48

Food neophobia

Answer 48

tendency to avoid novel foods and prefer familiar foods.

Question 49

Neophobic

Answer 49

not willing to try new food

Question 50

Neophilics

Answer 50

willing to try new food

Question 51

Entrainment

Answer 51

refers to body movements that synchronize with an external auditory beat