Lecture 5

Question 1

95-97% of mammals show – paternal investment

Answer 1

little

Question 2

chimps and bonobos show no paternal investment though some – is probable in chimps

Answer 2

paternal kin recognition

Question 3

predictors of paternal care: – paternity certainty

Answer 3

high

Question 4

predictors of paternal care: – benefits to offspring survival

Answer 4

high

Question 5

predictors of paternal care: – opportunity costs

Answer 5

low

Question 6

– paternity means investing in offspring you aren’t genetically related to which is considered wasteful from the fitness perspective

Answer 6

misattributing

Question 7

men should be more willing to invest when their investment –

Answer 7

matters

Question 8

investment is less – if it interferes less, or even coincides with future mating opportunities

Answer 8

costly

Question 9

men’s investment should be tempered by their probability of –

Answer 9

paternity

Question 10

– paternal confidence leads to less investment

Answer 10

lower

Question 11

Strategy A: If infants looks more – they may garner investment if the social father is not the biological father

Answer 11

anonymous

Question 12

Strategy B: If infants – father it might garner more investment by signaling paternity certainty

Answer 12

resembles

Question 13

videotapes of mothers and their families after birth show that they allege – resemblance

Answer 13

paternal

Question 14

Anderson: men with higher paternity confidence should have – actual paternity

Answer 14

higher

Question 15

Do men alter their investments according to their paternity certainty? – reports of investment dominate this literature and are therefore not very reliable

Answer 15

self

Question 16

one clear comparison of investment and paternity comes from looking at –

Answer 16

fathers and stepfathers

Question 17

genetic offspring of current mate

Answer 17

mating and parenting effort

Question 18

genetic offspring of previous mate

Answer 18

parenting effort

Question 19

step-offpring of current mate

Answer 19

mating effort

Question 20

step-offspring of previous mate

Answer 20

neither mating or parenting effort

Question 21

amount of money spent on children is highest for

Answer 21

genetic children of current mate

Question 22

T/F: amount of money spent on genetic children of previous mate and stepchildren of current mate is about the same

Answer 22

true

Question 23

time involvement with children is highest for

Answer 23

genetic children of current mate

Question 24

T/F: time involvement with stepchildren of current mate is higher than that with genetic children of previous mate

Answer 24

true

Question 25

-- resemblance is one potential cue of paternity (Apicella and Marlowe)

Answer 25

physical

Question 26

men react more -- toward fictitious offspring whose faces were morphed to look more like their own

Answer 26

favorably

Question 27

another cue to paternity is the perception of partner --

Answer 27

fidelity

Question 28

men currently in a relationship with their child's mother report significantly -- investment than those no longer with the mother

Answer 28

more

Question 29

Alvergne et al: raters were able to guess the true father with significant accuracy using facial cues but not

Answer 29

olfactory cues

Question 30

T/F: women are worse than men at detecting odor similarities

Answer 30

true

Question 31

because fathering is inherently -- than mothering, fathers should provide care that has high benefits to offspring

Answer 31

riskier

Question 32

In some monogamous bi-parental species (CA mouse), removing the males has significant effects on -- and not so much on birth

Answer 32

emergence

Question 33

In humans, infants with more involved fathers are more -- developed at 1 years old

Answer 33

cognitively

Question 34

In humans, children who are not well-liked by their peers reported -- relationship with their fathers

Answer 34

poorer

Question 35

-- of high school students who were "A students" had fathers who kept close track of how they were doing in school

Answer 35

85%