Preference is an Evolved Adaption

Question 1

Where do Psychologists think the Psychological processes that people use to choose a partner came from?

Answer 1

Evolution

Question 2

Why did this process come about?

Answer 2

when humans lived as hunter-gathers, having them made people well adapted to the environment

Question 3

What is a key part of this explanation?

Answer 3

attractive traits are reliable indicators that a partner is a good person to have children with and passing on our genes

Question 4

What did Singh find?

Answer 4

waist to hip ratio was related to attractiveness in women

Question 5

Why did Singh believe this?

Answer 5

Singh believed that a women’s hip to waist ratio was a good indicator of her ability to reproduce

Question 6

Singh study dates

Answer 6

1993 + 2002

Question 7

Singh 1993 - participants age

Answer 7

18-22

Question 8

Singh 1993 - participants gender

Answer 8

Male

Question 9

Singh 1993 - what did Singh have the participants do

Answer 9

rank drawings of female figures with a waist to hip ratios of 0.7-1.0

Question 10

Singh 1993 - What were they ranked according to?

Answer 10

their attractiveness and ability to have children

Question 11

Singh 1993 - What size was ranked the most attractive?

Answer 11

0.7%

Question 12

Singh 2002 - what did he argue?

Answer 12

waist to hip ratio is an reliable indicator of health and ability to reproduce

Question 13

Singh 2002 - What did he cite?

Answer 13

he cited evidence that females have higher WHR before puberty and after menopause

Question 14

Singh 2002 - What does high WHR in women show?

Answer 14

Its shown to correlate with health issues like diabetes