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Welcome to the quiz for week 5, on evolutionary psychology and cultural evolution. Good luck!
Question 1
What is required for a trait to be a product of natural selection? (Pick 3)
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quality of life.
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It must be heritable.
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Question 2
What is interesting about the adaptations of the beaver?
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Question 3
Which of the following are claims made by evolutionary psychology? (Pick 4)
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Evolutionary psychologists believe that our behaviour
is adapted to a much earlier period of history.
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We will inevitably
continue to evolve and get
smarter.
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explained by natural
selection.
The brains we have now
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Question 4
What is the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation?
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Question 5
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What conclusion do Cosmides and Tooby take from the Wason selection task?
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Question 6
Why do evolutionary psychologists favour a modular view of the brain?
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Question 7
What is culture, as that term is used in cognitive science?
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Question 8
What do we learn from the fact that only some chimpanzee populations use a hammer and anvil to
crack nuts?
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Question 9
Why is human language so incredibly flexible?
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Question 10
How can we test the cultural account of how human language evolved?
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Although we cant test the origins of human language directly, we
can study primitive language use in chimpanzee populations and
make plausible inferences about our hominid ancestors.
We can investigate experimentally how people learn language,
and develop computer simulations of these processes.
We can test this hypothesis by studying the very early origins of
language directly, as we have recently discovered written evidence
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of these languages.
The cultural account of how human language evolved cannot be
tested. It is what Popper called a metaphysical research
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