Deck 8: The Evolutionary Psychology of Social Behaviour Reciprocity and Group Behaviour

Question 1

The Robber's cave and group formation based on minimal information experiments were done by the following respectively:

A) Sherif and Tajfel
B) Brewer and Crano
C) Sherif and Crano
D) Brewer and Tajfel

Answer 1

Sherif and Tajfel

Question 2

In prisoner's dilemma mathematically the following is the case:

A) S > R > P > T
B) P > R > T > S
C) T > R > P > S
D) T > P > R > S

Answer 2

T > R > P > S

Question 3

Who said that xenophobia can become a political virtue:

A) E. O. Wilson
B) John Maynard-Smith
C) William Graham Sumner
D) Trivers

Answer 3

E. O. Wilson

Question 4

How suggested that the tendency to perceive sharp distinctions between in-group and out-group members is crucial to the formation of enduring coalitions:

A) Sherif and Tajfel
B) Trivers
C) John Maynard-Smith
D) Krebs and Denton

Question 5

Axelrod believes that TFT is an ESS because it has three strengths:

A) It is nice, it is retaliatory and it is unforgiving
B) It is nice, it is retaliatory and it is forgiving
C) It is nice, it is retaliatory and it is stable
D) It is nice, it is stable and it is unforgiving

Question 6

The San people are believed to have been living in Botswana for at least:

A) 11,000 years
B) 22,000 years
C) 33,000 years
D) 44,000 years

Question 7

The Yanomamö people of the Amazon basin are:

A) polygynous
B) polyandrous
C) polymorphic
D) monogamous

Question 8

Cases of 'altruism' between non-relatives have been proposed for all of the following species:

A) Greenwood hoopoe, dwarf mongooses, olive baboons
B) Greenwood hoopoe, Florida scrub jays, olive baboons
C) Greenwood hoopoe, vervet monkeys, olive baboons
D) Greenwood hoopoe, vervet monkeys, naked mole rats

Question 9

Kim Hill has suggested that human cooperation based around reciprocity is based on three evolved predispositions:

A) Punish non-reciprocators, seek non-reciprocators and aid family
B) Seek cooperative solutions, share cooperatively and aid family
C) Punish non-reciprocators, share cooperatively and aid family
D) Seek cooperative solutions, share cooperatively and punish non-reciprocators

Question 10

The boys summer camp' in Robbers' Cave State Park called themselves the:

A) 'Rattlers' and the 'Hawks'
B) 'Rattlers' and the 'Eagles'
C) 'Rattlers' and the 'Racoons'
D) 'Racoons' and the 'Eagles'

Question 11

According to Caporael and Baron during much of human evolution we lived in groups of average size between:

A) 10 and 100
B) 20 and 200
C) 40 and 400
D) 50 and 500

Question 12

ESS means:

A) Ecological strategic strategy
B) Ecological stable strategy
C) Evolutionarily strategic strategy
D) Evolutionarily stable strategy

Question 13

The !Kung San people of the Kalahari are:

A) polygynous
B) polyandrous
C) polymorphic
D) monogamous

Question 14

TFT means:

A) Tit for Tat
B) This for That
C) Tat for Tat
D) Tea for Two

Question 15

Tim Clutton-Brock has suggested there are at least two ways of explaining the giving of aid to non-relatives that he does not consider to be reciprocal altruism:

A) Direct reciprocation and simple reciprocation
B) Gift economy and manipulation
C) Mutualism and manipulation.
D) Direct reciprocation and manipulation

Question 16

The notion of the 'we-they' partition was first introduced by:

A) E. O. Wilson
B) John Maynard-Smith
C) William Graham Sumner
D) Trivers

Question 17

Who stated in 1996 that '(I)t seems that people will latch on to almost any cue to distinguish in-group and out-group members':

A) Sherif and Tajfel
B) Archer
C) Zimbardo
D) Trivers

Question 18

The prisoner experiment of Haney, Banks and Zimbardo was designed to run for two weeks but was terminated after:

A) 3 days
B) 4 days
C) 5 days
D) 6 days

Question 19

In the case of the Aché, despite their reputation for egalitarian food sharing, more than __% of all adult deaths and over __% of child fatalities are due to violence by other Aché:

A) 60 and 40
B) 30 and 70
C) 40 and 60
D) 70 and 30

Question 20

The Northern Aché are a forager people that live in the rain forests of:

A) Paraguay
B) Botswana
C) Namibia
D) Brazil