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Chapter 1

1. Natural Selection depends on:

[a] The inheritance of acquired characteristics
[b] Heritable variation and differential reproduction
[c] Both a and b
[d] Neither a nor b


2. The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics is also known as:

[a] Lamarkianism
[b] Dawinism
[c] Lysenkoism
[d] Mendelism


3. An important part on Mendel’s notion of inheritance is that it:

[a] Integrated
[b] Continuous
[c] Analogical
[d] Particulate


4. Who suggested ‘biology will cannibalise psychology’:

[a] Dawkins
[b] Wilson
[c] Thornhill & Palmer
[d] Trivers


5. The EEA refers to:

[a] Ecological environment of adaptation
[b] Evolutionary environment of adaptation
[c] Environment of evolutionary adaptation
[d] Evolutionary ecology of adaptation

6. Eugenics refers to

[a] The process of genetic transmission
[b] Selective breeding for the good of the species
[c] Indiscriminate genocide
[d] The inheritance of acquired characteristics

7. What is the Great Chain of being?

,[a] The view that there is a natural hierarchy in life
[b] Another term for decent with modification
[c] The view that one can trace all organisms back to a single common ancestor
[d] The fact that all creatures are genetically related to one another

8. ‘Instinctual drift’ (Breland and Breland, 1961) shows that:

[a] Animals can be trained to do almost anything
[b] Learning is a species-general process
[c] Learning is constrained by species-specific 'instincts'
[d] Positive reinforcement is more effective than punishment

9. The term 'evolutionary psychology' was first coined by

[a] Charles Darwin
[b] E.O. Wilson
[c] Richard Dawkins
[d] John Tooby and Leda Cosmides

10. Which of the following is a core principle of evolutionary psychology?

[a] All behaviours are adaptive
[b] All behaviours are hard-wired
[c] Culture and learning are of little importance
[d] None of the above

11. If a plant with a white flower is crossed with a plant with a red flower and we find the
offspring are all either white or red never pink this is evidence for

[a] The particulate nature of inheritance
[b] The blending nature of inheritance
[c] Incomplete dominance
[d] Heterozygous advantage

12. The modern synthesis is a combination of the work of which two people?

[a] Darwin and Mendel
[b] Darwin and Wallace
[c] Lamark and Mendel
[d] Dawkins and Darwin

13. “[It] is not a place or a habitat, or even a time period. It is a statistical composite of the
adaptation-relevant properties of ancestral environments encountered by members of ancestral
populations, weighted by their frequency and fitness-consequences.” What is being referred to
here?


[a] The Great Chain of being
[b] The Upper Pleistocene
[c] The stone age
[d] The EEA

, 14. The 'Spandrel's of San Marco' (Gould & Lewontin, 1979) is a criticism of what?

[a] Innateness
[b] Inheritance
[c] Adaptationism
[d] Determinism

15. What is the naturalistic fallacy?

[a] Something must be good because it is natural
[b] Something must be natural because it is good
[c] We can understand nature by experimentation
[d] We cannot understand nature by experimentation

16. The view that the mind is made up of domain-specific mental modules is central to what?

[a] All evolutionary psychology
[b] Sociobiology
[c] Behavioural ecology
[d] The Santa-Barbara School

17. Phrenology is most similar to which of Tooby and Cosmides's principles?

[a] Adaptiveness
[b] Innateness
[c] Modularity
[d] The EEA

18. Evolution was first proposed by

[a] The Ancient Greeks
[b] The Babylonians
[c] Erasmus Darwin
[d] Charles Darwin

19. Which of the following is an ultimate question?

[a] Why do we find faeces disgusting?
[b] How does schizophrenia develop?
[c] Are men better at spatial tasks than women?
[d] Which part of the brain is responsible for love?

20. Which of the following is NOT an assumption of the cultural relativist tradition?

[a] Culture is an autonomous force
[b] Learning processes are domain specific
[c] Humans are born blank slates
[d] Human behaviour is infinitely malleable

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