Social Psychology Chapter 5

According to evolutionary psychology, what two abilities are the most important similarities among humans?

Adapt / Learn

Norms

Standards for accepted and expected behavior. Norms prescribe "proper" behavior. (In a different sense of the word, norms also describe what most others do — what is normal.)

Culture

The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.

Avery uses assertive influence tactics and is not very satisfied with her life. Avery is most likely demonstrating the social belief of ______.

cynicism

Androgynous

having both male and female characteristics

One of the major criticisms of evolutionary psychology is the ______ _____, which is the tendency to explain past behavior instead of predicting future behavior.

hindsight bias

In conversation, men's style reflects their concern for ______ whereas women's style reflects their concern for ______.

independence / connectedness

Natural Selection

The evolutionary process by which heritable traits that best enable organisms to survive and reproduce in particular environments are passed to ensuing generations.

As noted by Judith Rich Harris in 1998, humans have 46 chromosomes. How many are unisex?

45

Intersex

A child who is born with both male and female sex organs, or organs that are in between traditional male and female (such as a small penis or a large clitoris)

Testosterone

A hormone more prevalent in males than females that is linked to dominance and aggression.

In the context of cultural norms, how might relatively formal northern Europeans come across to an expressive Latin American person?

Cold / efficient

Evolutionary psych has NOT been criticized for...?

Emphasizing the role of culture

Gender

In psych, the characteristics -- whether biologically or socially influenced, that we associate with males and females

Overall, children exposed to more testosterone in the womb exhibit the psychological pattern more typical of males including _____.

Less eye contact Less empathy Lower language skills

Epigenetics

The study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without DNA change.

Evolutionary Psychology

The study of the evolution of cognition and behavior using principles of natural selection.

Eagly and Wood theorize that gender differences are due to both biology and culture inclining men and women to separate into a division of ______

labor