W4 - Lecture 4

Question 1

What is decision fatigue?

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Question 2

How is decision fatigue thought to potentially affect doctors’ prescription of antibiotics?

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Question 3

How is decision fatigue thought to influence doctors’ decisions for cancer screening?

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Question 4

What did Danziger et al. (2011) show through their research on judge parole decisions?

Answer 4

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Question 5

What attributions of social behavior? Why are they important to consider when trying to understand others’ behaviors?

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Question 6

What is Kelly’s Covariation Model?

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Question 7

As per Kelly’s Covariation Model when are we likely to attribute a person’s behaviors to dispositional (internal) attribution?

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Question 8

As per Kelly’s Covariation Model when are we likely to attribute a person’s behaviors to situational (external) attribution?

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Question 9

What is the fundamental attribution error?

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Question 10

What does Kelly’s Covariation Model suggest about when and why we engage in special situational (external) attribution?

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Question 11

What is the quiz-game experiment? How does it exemplify the fundamental attribution error?

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Question 12

What do the results of the Castro study suggest about FAE?

Answer 12

e

Question 13

What is a competing explanation for the results of the Castro theory?

Answer 13

e

Question 14

What are the reasons why people show the fundamental attribution error?

Answer 14

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Question 15

What does the ultimatum game suggest about FAE?

Answer 15

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Question 16

How does Bertrand Russel characterize love?

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Question 17

What does Olivia Judson say about love and sex?

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Question 18

Why may love and sex be important to our species and its survival?

Answer 18

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Question 19

Briefly explain the “what is beautiful is good” stereotype.

Answer 19

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Question 20

Briefly explain the “attractive is only average” hypothesis. What’s a potential evolutionary explanation for this phenomenon?

Answer 20

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Question 21

What evidence goes against the “attractive is only average” hypothesis? What’s a possible reason for the contradictory finding?

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Question 22

What is the “mere exposure” effect?

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Question 23

How does the mere exposure effect work for conscious vs nonconscious cues?

Answer 23

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Question 24

What does neural imaging show about the mere exposure effect?

Answer 24

e

Question 25

What is the relationship between social influence and what people find attractive?

Answer 25

e

Question 26

What does Thiruchselvam et al. (2016) suggest about social influence and attractiveness?

Answer 26

e

Question 27

What are the three facts of life (ie. the basics of evolution)?

Answer 27

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Question 28

From an evolutionary perspective, what do men want in their significant others?

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Question 29

From an evolutionary perspective, what do women want in their significant others?

Answer 29

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Question 30

What is thought to be one mechanism by which men can gauge female fertility?

Answer 30

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Question 31

Briefly explain the dual-mating hypothesis in females.

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Question 32

What are the two kinds of love as per Hatfield and Rapson (1993)?

Answer 32

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Question 33

What are attachment styles? Describe the three types of attachment styles.

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Question 34

How do securely vs. insecurely attached people characterize their parents and their relationship with their parents?

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Question 35

What are pair-bonds? How are they thought to link to attachment styles?

Answer 35

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Question 36

Do mammals tend to monogamous or polygamous?

Answer 36

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Question 37

Briefly explain Nair and Young (2016) and what it suggests about pair-bonding in monogamous vs polygamous species.

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Question 38

Where does dopamine originate? What regions does dopamine project to innervate?

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Question 39

What is dopamine's function? How is dopamine-related to sexual behavior (in rats)?

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Question 40

What is sexual behaviors does the DRD4 gene contribute to?

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Question 41

What role does Vasopressin serve in male pair-bonding?

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Question 42

What role does Oxytocin serve in female pair-bonding?

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Question 43

How do monogamous voles compare to polygamous voles in terms of neurobiology?

Answer 43

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Question 44

What is potentially the role of jealousy in the maintenance of a relationship?

Answer 44

e

Question 45

What sex differences exist in jealousy?

Answer 45

e

Question 46

What does the automatic de-evaluation of romantic alternatives theory suggest?

Answer 46

e

Question 47

What does the Maner et al. (2007) study suggest about commitment and temptation?

Answer 47

e