Question 1

Brief Introduction: Mate preferences are of a particular interest to which psychologists?

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Evolutionary

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Biological

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Psychodynamic

Question 2

Brief Introduction: What does this demonstrate?

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What sort of characteristics were preferred by our ancestors

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What sort of mates were preferred for breeding

Question 3

Brief Introduction: What were the two psychologists associated with the brief introduction?

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Thornhill and Thornhill

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Trivers and Trivers

Question 4

What did Thornhill and Thornhill propose?

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That individuals lacking preferred characteristics will not be selected to mate and therefore will not be able to become people's ancestors

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That individuals lacking preferred characteristics will not be selected to breed and therefore will not be able to become people's ancestors

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That individuals lacking preferred characteristics will not be selected to mate and therefore will not be able to become people's parents

Question 5

Which three psychologists influenced Buss' study: 'Sex differences in human mate preferences'?

Accepted Answer

Daly Et Al

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Trivers

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Symons

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Gibson

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Thornhill

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Milgram

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Walk

Question 6

Trivers believed that the characteristics that males and females find desirable are affected by 'parental investment'

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true

Question 7

In what type of fertilisation are the minimum contributes of males and females very different?

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Mammalia

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Reptile

Question 8

Males contributions in terms of effort are significantly... that that effort required of a female

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lower

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higher

Question 9

(End of Trivers) Therefore, this evolutionary feature plays a part in determining the characteristics males and females... in a mate?

Accepted Answer

desire

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prefer

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