PP Week 7 TRA

The work of evolutionary psychology really barely touches issues connected with creationism

• True

• False

Research by Schwartz, Ward, and Wallaert (2011)  presented a battery of findings from evolutionary psychology to two groups of adults. One group comprised religious individuals; the other group comprised secular individuals. The researchers asked the participants how much they believed in the various findings. In one condition, participants were simply given the findings. In another condition, participants were told that the findings came from evolutionary psychology.

• In the no-label condition (i.e., when just presented with the findings), the religious participants were actually more likely to endorse the findings as accurate.

• There was no difference between the groups

• In the label condition (i.e., when just presented with the findings), the religious participants were actually more likely to endorse the findings as accurate.

According to Armour (2007), a Gallup poll indicated that employees who had ________ at work reported 50% more job satisfaction than those who did not.

• close friends

• a romantic interest in a colleague

• higher wages than they thought they deserved

• job security

A person's willingness to stay in a relationship no matter what – to "stick it out" even in hard times" – is related to which component of love, according to Robert Sternberg?

• commitment

• passion

• intimacy

• longevity

In the model of Robert Sternberg, what kind of love is marked by passion, commitment, and intimacy all at the same time?

• consummate love

• companionate love

• liking

• fatuous love

The term that refers to physical nearness and plays a big part in the interpersonal attraction that develops between people is ________.

• proximity

• tangentiality

• complementarity

• reciprocity

When researchers invited business executives to a social mixer and tracked their interactions, what did they find?

• People spent the most time with others who they already knew.

• Men liked interacting with new people while women preferred being around those they already knew.

• People spent the most time with others who they met for the first time at the mixer.

• Women liked interacting with new people while men preferred being around those they already knew.

Every day on his way to work, Darnell passes a particular coffee shop. Before starting his job Darnell had never heard of the shop, but now that he sees it every day he stops there regularly and finds that it has become his favorite place to get a cup of coffee. According to research by Robert Zajonc, Darnell's liking of the coffee shop is due to the ________ effect.

• proximity

• intrinsic motivation

• proximal incentive

• mere exposure