Evolutionary Explaination

Question 1

What’s a relationship?

Answer 1

A continuing and committed association between two or more people

Question 2

What’s natural selection?

Answer 2

The argument that genes advantageous for survival are naturally selected

Question 3

What is sexual selection?

Answer 3

Characteristics increasing reproductive success are passed on and may become exaggerated through generation (runaway process)

Question 4

What is anisogamy?

Answer 4

The result of sexual selection which refers to the sex differences between males and females that lead to intra or inter sexual selection

Question 5

What’s inter-sexual selection?

Answer 5

Females preferred strategy.
They value quality over quantity.
Female preferences determine the trait that’s passed on, and passed through generations gradually becoming exaggerated (runaway process).
Sexy sons hypothesis suggests that women go for men with a certain specific certain trait and this trait will be passed onto her son.

Question 6

What’s intra-sexual selection?

Answer 6

Preferred male strategy.
Favour quantity over quality - have as many partners as possible
Chosen ones characteristics will be passed onto offspring.
Competitive behaviour passed on.
Psychical dimorphism - physical differences between male + female (size, appearance)

Question 7

Explain AO3 - empirical evidence

Answer 7

E- Buss (1989) 10,000 adults in 33 countries. Females favour resource based characteristics and males prefer good looks and

E- supports intra/ inter ss that females prefer someone who can provide and protect vs male who chooses looks

L- supports the predictions of evolutionary theory

However, could lack temporal validity as over 30 years ago - women are now more independent

Question 8

Explain AO3 - empirical evidence of inter ss

Answer 8

E- Clark and Hatfield (1989) “will you go to bed with me” F= 0% M=75%

E- supports female choosiness and males wanting to have as many partners as possible

L- therefore supports both inter and intra ss

However, could be due desirability bias where males and females are expected to play these roles

Question 9

Explain AO3- socially sensitive

Answer 9

E- promotes traditional sexist views

E- suggests that males are genetically determined to have many partners and women are selective perpetuates

L- alpha bias and m+f determined to act differently so stereotyping and sexist