Test Bank for Evolutionary Psychology, 4th Edition by Lance Workman

Testbank for Evolutionary Psychology 4th edition, by Workman and Reader



Chapter 1

1. Natural Selection depends on:

[a] The inheritance of acquired characteristics
[b] Heritable variation and differential reproduction
[c] Both a and b
[d] Neither a nor b


2. The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics is also known as:

[a] Lamarkianism
[b] Dawinism
[c] Lysenkoism
[d] Mendelism


3. An important part on Mendel’s notion of inheritance is that it:

[a] Integrated
[b] Continuous
[c] Analogical
[d] Particulate


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?