Quiz 5 answers

Question 1

Hunger has a profound psychological effect on human behaviour. What dynamics have been shown to be influenced by hunger? Tick all that apply:

• Self-control
• Greed
• Risk-taking
• Future discounting

Answer 1

• Self-control
• Greed
• Risk-taking
• Future discounting

Question 2

Fluctuations in blood glucose levels are a psychological marker of…

Answer 2

• hunger.

Question 3

Evolutionary psychologists propose that…

Answer 3

• Human behaviour reflects adaptations to

Pleistocene living conditions.

Question 4

Higher resource uncertainty increases endorsement of…

Answer 4

• Dominant leaders.

Question 5

Which of these games did Aaroe & Petersen use to test sharing behaviour?

Answer 5

• Dictator game

Question 6

Which of the following behaviours related to heightened greed is affected by blood glucose levels?

Answer 6

• Risk-taking
• Future discounting
• Self-control

Question 7

People with low blood glucose levels are more likely to…

Answer 7

• Feel hungry
• Express support for resource distributions
• Are less likely to share scarce resources

Question 8

Schaller et al. 2015 have propsed a behavioural immune systen. They indicate that in the context of illness false-negative errors are…

Answer 8

• Costly

Question 9

The correlation between time 2 blood glucose levels and support for social welfare was…

Answer 9

• Negative

Question 10

An individual in high economic uncertainty is less likely to chose a dominant leader is they…

Answer 10

• Have high personal control.

Question 11

According to Robinson et al. 2014 square faces indicate…

Answer 11

• Higher dominance

Question 12

Greater national-level parasite stress levels is related to..

Answer 12

• Greater conformity

Question 13

According to Bollen et al. 2021, cognitive distortions in public discourse have increased over the last decades…

Answer 13

• Increased

Question 14

In Aaroe & Petersen, participants who have NOT had sugar showed…

Answer 14

• Higher support for social welfare

Question 15

Large game hunting success may be as low as

Answer 15

4%

Question 16

Which of the following confounds was NOT controlled for by Aaroe & Petersen?

Answer 16

• Age of participants was not controlled for by gender,
  perceived pleasantness of the drink and length of
  fasting.

Question 17

Aaroe & Petersen argue that their findings support which philosophers notion of humans as political animals?

Answer 17

• Aristotle

Question 18

Status competition relies on…

Answer 18

• Prestige & Dominance

Question 19

Higher blood glucose levels in the experiment were associated with…

Answer 19

• Less support for social welfare but a trend

towards more generous sharing of resources

Question 20

Social welfare politics are the modern expression of which evolutionary problem?

Answer 20

• Resource sharing

Question 21

Individuals with low blood glucose levels were more likely to…

Answer 21

• Express strong motivation to disseminate
  information that was likely to increase the welfare
  support of other individuals.

Question 22

Low likelihood of hunting success in our ancestral past suggests that humans…

Answer 22

• Develop motivation and strategies for acquiring

resources by other means than foraging

Question 23

The overall evidence of the article by Aaroe and Petersen suggests that…

Answer 23

• Political attitudes can be influenced by metabolic

needs.

Question 24

The findings that blood glucose levels correlate with political attitudes suggest that…

Answer 24

• Human decision-making is influenced by adaptive

problem-solving that reflects ancestral living.

Question 25

Classic evolutionary psychology theories assume that human psychology evolved through…

Answer 25

• Natural selection

Question 26

The study discussed in your weekly reading presented evidence that fluctuations in what effect support for social welfare…

Answer 26

• Glucose levels.