PSY235 MSU FInal, PSY 235 Social Psychology Final Exam Review (Exams 1-4) with correct answers 2025

PSY235 MSU FInal, PSY 235 Social
Psychology Final Exam Review (Exams 1-
4) with correct answers 2025




A child's attachment style should become most important for social functioning:
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under conditions of high sexual selection.
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under conditions of interpersonal stress.
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under conditions of high natural selection.
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under conditions of a slow life history strategy. - correct-answers-
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under conditions of interpersonal stress.
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Evolutionary psychology aims to tell people why they behave the way they do, as well as what is mor
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ally good behavior. True or false - correct-answers-false
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Children raised by divorced parents tend to have better outcomes than children living with mothers
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who have never been married. - correct-answers-true
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the two keys to natural selection are - correct-answers-reproductive success and differential fertility
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,Over-reproduction is one of the premises of natural selection. What does this mean? - correct- v v v v v v v v v v v v v v




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Within a species, you will have more individuals born than can survive until reproductive age.
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Which of the following child attachment styles is most likely to result from a parent who sometimes r
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esponds to the child's needs but is sometimes unresponsive to the child's needs?
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Anxious

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Secure

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How do systems in the brain contribute to Evolutionary Psychology?
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-The brain uses one single program to solve evolutionary pressures.
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Over time, programs in the brain to deal with predators and reproductive success operate in the sam
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e manner.
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-The brain is made up of specialized programs to solve different evolutionary challenges.
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-There is no association between brain functions and evolutionary psychology. - correct-answers-
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The brain is made up of specialized programs to solve different evolutionary challenges.
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Why did Mischel's research find that the time spent waiting for two marshmallows related to achiev
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Time spent waiting is an indicator of a person's ability to control attention and delay gratification, wh
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ich are important skills for success in many life pursuits.
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-Consuming marshmallows too quickly leads to rapid changes in one's blood-
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sugar levels, which disrupts cognitive functioning.
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-Neither of the above is correct. - correct-answers-
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Time spent waiting is an indicator of a person's ability to control attention and delay gratification, wh
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ich are important skills for success in many life pursuits.
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,According to Life History Theory, why would paternal absence relate to age of menarche?
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-The absence or presence of a father directly influences the life expectancy of the child.
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The absence or presence of a father is an indicator or cue for the harshness of a child's development
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al environment.
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-The absence or presence of a father directly influences a child's biological development. - correct-
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he absence or presence of a father is an indicator or cue for the harshness of a child's developmental
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environment.



What role does Evolutionary Psychology play in the nature/nurture debate? - correct-answers-
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Evolutionary Psychology is neither nature nor nurture: It requires both for its explanations.
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Differences in child and adolescent outcomes across family structures (for example, being raised by
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divorced parents vs. married biological parents) are due entirely to differences in income across the
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se groups. True or false - correct-answers-false
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What kind of behavior on the part of the parent is most likely to result in healthy exploration and disc
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overy behaviors in the child?v v v v




-Following the child around so that her "secure base" is always present.
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-Providing care and support when the child indicates that she requires it.
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Not worrying about giving the child a "secure base," as the child would pick up on the parent's anxiet
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y and become anxious herself.
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Any of the above parenting strategies would be equally likely to result in children having healthy expl
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oration behaviors - correct-answers- v v v




Providing care and support when the child indicates that she requires it.
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, "Discounting the future" refers to which of the following? v v v v v v v v




-Not wanting to be alive in the future
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-Wanting to be alive more in the future than in the present
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-Valuing resources in the future less than they are valued today. - correct-answers-
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Valuing resources in the future less than they are valued today.
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The crucial, most important moment in the "Strange Situation" for revealing the child's attachment
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-when the attachment figure leaves for the first time.
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-when the attachment figure arrives with the child.
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-when the attachment figure returns after leaving the child.
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-none of the above. - correct-answers-when the attachment figure returns after leaving the child
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According to Life History Theory, why should life expectancy influence homicide rates? - correct-
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answers-Life expectancy shifts the degree to which a person discounts the future.
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Married males are less likely to commit homicide relative to single, never-
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married males. This is because: - correct-answers-
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being married is an indicator on a male having "more to lose"
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According to Life History Theory, what is an ultimate (distal) explanation for why uncertain resource
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s early in life relate to managing tradeoffs later in life? - correct-answers-
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Those organisms which did not discount the future more under conditions of uncertainty did not re
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produce as much as those who did take into account this information.
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In the "Strange Situation," a child with an anxious attachment would show which of the following pa
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tterns? - correct-answers- v v




He would show high distress at the caregiver leaving and would not be easily comforted by the careg
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iver when she returns.
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