Practice question · Select all that apply
Select every statement that is TRUE about evolutionary psychology.
Hints
- Two options overreach - one about all traits, one about what the EEA means.
- Traits can be by-products or noise, and the EEA is ANCESTRAL, not modern.
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- A. People reason more accurately in a social-contract (cheater) framing.
- C. Calling a trait an adaptation requires evidence of selection for its function.
- E. A trait can be universal, useful and entirely unselected - carried along by something else that was.
Why
The evidence requirement, by-products, and better cheater-framing reasoning are all true. Not every trait is an adaptation, and the EEA is the ancestral (not modern) environment - so those two are false.
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