According to sociobiological explanations from sexual behavior, women seek out partners who will provide the most______.

Related Mcqs:

1. Sexual fantasy is accepted as a driving force in sexual offending. Which of the following raises over this assumed simple link between fantasy and offending?

   A. Sexual offences are often non- consummatory
   B. When treatment is mainly directed at reducing fantastic recidivism actually increases
   C. Unacceptable themes are found in the fantasy of ‘normal’ individuals but they don’t have to be acted upon in order to have erotic effects
   D. All of the above

2. What factor determines the sexual behavior of most species?

   A. Emotions
   B. Availability
   C. Hormones
   D. Thinking

3. Current research considers human sexual behavior to be motivated by what factors in the brain?

   A. External sensory stimuli and organism’s internal state
   B. Pre-optic area and estrogen
   C. Interpersonal attraction and financial stability
   D. Intelligence and physical attractiveness

4. Which, if any, of the factors below has probably NOT influenced human sexual behavior in evolution?

   A. Women might choose a partner likely to provide reliability and stability
   B. Women might be attracted to men who are successful and powerful
   C. Men might guard the partner from the attentions of other men
   D. None of the above-all are true

5. Which of the following are actual factors confirming the involvement of the preoptic area in the control of male sexual behavior?

   A. Lesions of the preoptic area can elicit copulatory activity
   B. Electrical stimulation of the preoptic area can permanently abolish male sexual behavior
   C. Neuronal and metabolic activity is induced the preoptic area during copulation
   D. Small implants of the female hormone estrogen into the preoptic area restore sexual behavior is castrated rats

6. Professor Crisman believes that most women prefer tall and physically strong partners because this preference enhanced the survival of our ancestors genes. This viewpoint best illustrates the _______________ perspective.

   A. Cognitive
   B. behavioral
   C. psychodynamic
   D. evolutionary

7. Only when experimental participants were informed that a women was raped did they perceive the women’s behavior as inviting rape> This best illustrates that victim- blaming is fueled by:

   A. deindividuation
   B. the bystander effect
   C. the mere exposure effect
   D. hindsight bias

8. Which of the following explanations for the problems of obesity targets environmental factors as the cause?

   A. Sedentary lifestyles mean human beings take less regular exercise, which leads to excess weight
   B. Human meal times tend to be fixed which overrides body’s natural appetite and control mechanism
   C. Variety of modern foods encourage people to eat more by bringing immediate rewards of new tastes smell and textures
   D. Higher stress levels in contemporary society can lead to overeating
   E. All of the above

9. The Freudian explanations of anxiety disorders emphasizes:

   A. the avoidance paradox
   B. learned habits of self- defeating behavior
   C. forbidden impulses that threaten a loss of control
   D. the development of a faulty or inaccurate self – image and distorted self – perceptions

10. Which of the following are FALSE regarding the role of theories in psychology?
    1. Facts have to be integrated in terms of theoretical explanations
    2. Theories are statements of what rather than why
    3. Theories are capable of accounting for multiple facts, but cannot predict what might happen in novel situations
    4. All of the above

    A. 1 & 2
    B. 1 & 3
    C. 2 & 3
    D. 4