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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] 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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