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Exam 3
Buss-Quiz Questions
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
11/14/2011

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a woman who is not sexually promiscuous and appears selective signals to a prospective long-term mate that:
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she will be faithful in the future, she will bear his children and not another man's, she is pursing long-term relationship exclusively with one man
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males strategies have developed to fins whih of the following traits desirable in females
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smooth skin, good muscle tone, bright eyes
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which of the following is an example of strategic interference?
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a man seeking a long-term relationship is attracted to a woman seeking a short0term fling
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according to Buss, jealousy is an evolutionary adaptation that protects
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long-term relationships
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the statement, you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours, describes
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reciprocal altruism
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Lumsden and Wilson find it interesting that most phobias involve things that
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were potentially dangerous in the environment in which humans evovled
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the assumption that almost everything humans and nonhumans do is the result of evolutionary adaptation is called
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adaptationism
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