Quiz 5 answers Flashcards
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
- Self-control
- Greed
- Risk-taking
- Future discounting
Fluctuations in blood glucose levels are a psychological marker of…
- hunger.
Evolutionary psychologists propose that…
- Human behaviour reflects adaptations to
Pleistocene living conditions.
Higher resource uncertainty increases endorsement of…
- Dominant leaders.
Which of these games did Aaroe & Petersen use to test sharing behaviour?
- Dictator game
Which of the following behaviours related to heightened greed is affected by blood glucose levels?
- Risk-taking
- Future discounting
- Self-control
People with low blood glucose levels are more likely to…
- Feel hungry
- Express support for resource distributions
- Are less likely to share scarce resources
Schaller et al. 2015 have propsed a behavioural immune systen. They indicate that in the context of illness false-negative errors are…
- Costly
The correlation between time 2 blood glucose levels and support for social welfare was…
- Negative
An individual in high economic uncertainty is less likely to chose a dominant leader is they…
- Have high personal control.
According to Robinson et al. 2014 square faces indicate…
- Higher dominance
Greater national-level parasite stress levels is related to..
- Greater conformity
According to Bollen et al. 2021, cognitive distortions in public discourse have increased over the last decades…
- Increased
In Aaroe & Petersen, participants who have NOT had sugar showed…
- Higher support for social welfare
Large game hunting success may be as low as
4%
Which of the following confounds was NOT controlled for by Aaroe & Petersen?
- Age of participants was not controlled for by gender,
perceived pleasantness of the drink and length of
fasting.
Aaroe & Petersen argue that their findings support which philosophers notion of humans as political animals?
- Aristotle
Status competition relies on…
- Prestige & Dominance
Higher blood glucose levels in the experiment were associated with…
- Less support for social welfare but a trend
towards more generous sharing of resources
Social welfare politics are the modern expression of which evolutionary problem?
- Resource sharing
Individuals with low blood glucose levels were more likely to…
- Express strong motivation to disseminate
information that was likely to increase the welfare
support of other individuals.
Low likelihood of hunting success in our ancestral past suggests that humans…
- Develop motivation and strategies for acquiring
resources by other means than foraging
The overall evidence of the article by Aaroe and Petersen suggests that…
- Political attitudes can be influenced by metabolic
needs.
The findings that blood glucose levels correlate with political attitudes suggest that…
- Human decision-making is influenced by adaptive
problem-solving that reflects ancestral living.
Classic evolutionary psychology theories assume that human psychology evolved through…
- Natural selection
The study discussed in your weekly reading presented evidence that fluctuations in what effect support for social welfare…
- Glucose levels.
