Describe the evolutionary perspective on personality and some of the evidence for this position
What will be an ideal response?
* Theorists suggest that evolution has had an impact on the type of people men and women choose as dates and mates.
* Women seek characteristics that are correlated with achievement such as hard-working, ambitious, and energetic.
* Men seek characteristics that are correlated with reproductive capacity.
* Men and women were asked for their willingness to date people; willingness to date increased as salary increased. Women were significantly more willing to date someone at the highest salary level.
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It is quite likely that the correlation between shoe size and intelligence in human adults would be
a. near zero. b. strongly negative. c. strongly positive. d. impossible to determine.
How can parents tell when an infant has achieved representational thought?
A) The evidence is the use of language. B) The evidence is the use of gestures. C) The evidence is the use of body language. D) There is no outward evidence.