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1. Courtship patterns in the animal world:
a. are quite rigid within each species.
b. ensure that animals who deviate from the norm rarely attract a mate.
c. are governed by instinct.
d. are characterized by all of the above.
2. Which of the following most accurately expresses cross-cultural patterns of marriage?
a. In every culture the vast majority of people marry at least once in their lives.
b. Marriage is a social norm only in industrialized countries.
c. Divorce and remarriage are much more common in communal, rather than individual, societies.
d. Historically speaking, the institution of marriage is a fairly recent invention of Western cultures.
3. The custom of parents arranging the marriage of their children is:
a. rarely practiced in industrialized countries.
b. rarely practiced in agricultural societies.
c. rarely practiced in both industrialized and agricultural societies.
d. remains strong in many industrialized and agricultural societies.
4. People usually select mates:
a. from the group of people with whom they are most familiar.
b. who prove the rule that opposites attract.
c. following their own idiosyncratic, unpredictable preferences.
d. according to each of the above principles.
5. People generally choose mates who are similar to them in:
a. height.
b. weight.
c. intelligence.
d. all of the above.
6. When Elaine Hatfield matched college students with attractive or unattractive blind dates:
a. men reported greater liking for attractive dates.
b. women reported greater liking for attractive dates.
c. women were less sensitive to the attractiveness of their dates than were men.
d. both men and women paired with attractive dates reported liking their dates more than those paired with unattractive dates
7. Which of the following is not considered by social psychologists to be an important factor in influencing romantic attraction?
a. proximity
b. similarity
c. physical attractiveness
d. height
8. Evolutionary psychologists believe that the factors that influence mate selection:
a. are the same in both women and men.
b. are the product of millions of years of evolution.
c. vary over the life span.
d. have all of the above characteristics.
9. Charles Darwin believed that animal features such as bright feathers and large antlers:
a. serve no real purpose.
b. evolved because they increase the chances that an animal will attract a mate.
c. have no equivalent among human beings.
d. are environmental adaptations that are becoming extinct as the species settle into their ecological niches.
10. Men are more likely than women to prefer potential mates who:
a. are youthful.
b. have high social status.
c. are financially well-to-do.
d. are willing to make a lifelong commitment.
11. David Buss believes that human mating behaviors follow Darwinian principles of natural selection and evolution. Dr. Buss is evidently a(n):
a. behavioral neuroscientist.
b. sociobiologist.
c. biopsychologist.
d. evolutionary psychologist.
12. According to evolutionary psychology, the chances of reproductive success for a woman are increased by selecting a mate who:
a. is young.
b. is healthy.
c. is physically attractive.
d. will provide food and protection.
13. Research by Devendra Singh indicates that men show a consistent preference for women who:
a. have hips roughly one-third larger than their waist.
b. are very slim.
c. are financially secure.
d. have all of the above characteristics.
14. Guy and Sharon are on a blind date. Of the following, the characteristic that will probably be most influential in determining whether they like each other would be their:
a. personalities.
b. attitudes.
c. physical attractiveness.
d. intelligence.
15. Feelings of jealousy:
a. show a clear gender difference.
b. are similar in both men and women.
c. cannot be accounted for by evolutionary psychology.
d. tend to be stronger in men than in women.
16. When David Buss asked men and women to imagine two forms of infidelity, he found that:
a. men showed a stronger negative reaction to sexual infidelity on the part of their mate.
b. women showed a stronger negative reaction to emotional infidelity on the part of their mate.
c. both men and women showed a stronger negative reaction to sexual infidelity than they did to emotional infidelity.
d. both a. and b. are true.
17. The evolutionary explanation for gender differences in jealousy is that:
a. women care more that their mate will become emotionally attached to another woman because their reproductive success often depends on the resources of the men.
b. men care more about sexual infidelity by their mate because of uncertainty about who fathered their children.
c. men lacking sexual jealousy lost out in the struggle to reproduce.
d. All of the above.
18. The impact of evolved sexual preferences on human behavior is revealed in the fact that erotic literature aimed at women tends to:
a. be highly visual.
b. depict young men in poses suggesting noncommittal encounters.
c. depict an extended courtship by a man whose passion reflects a lifelong commitment.
d. do all of the above.
19. Classified personal advertisements written by men seeking a potential partner generally describe a woman who is:
a. an attractive, younger individual.
b. interested in a lifelong commitment.
c. a mature, responsible partner.
d. intelligent and has a good sense of humor.
20. In a cross-cultural survey, David Buss found that the top two preferences for mates are:
a. youthfulness and vigor.
b. warmth and humor.
c. responsibility and maturity.
d. kindness and intelligence.