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argues that of the five personality dimensions,________________________ are the most important traits because they most directly provide answers to a host of adaptive problems.

A) agreeableness and openness
B) surgency/dominance,agreeableness,and conscientious
C) emotional stability,agreeableness and openness
D) conscientious and agreeableness/hostility

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The evolutionary process of natural and sexual selection and chance results in _____ distinct outcomes.

A) two
B) five
C) three
D) six

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__________ involves the disposition to experience positive emotional states and to engage in one's environment and to be sociable and self-confident.

The term ___________ can be defined as the scientific study of human thought and behavior from an evolutionary perspective and focuses on four big questions.

Traits that happen as a result of adaptations but are not part of the functional design are called _________.

Which of the following is more so a product of chance,also known as "random effects"?

_____________ is change in gene function that does not involve changes in DNA

Psychological mechanisms relevant to personality can be grouped into all the following categories,except:

,and later popularized by the anthropologist John Tooby and psychologist Leda Cosmides in the early 1990s.

A second origin of environment induced individual differences is _______________,which means that different people find what makes them stand out from others in order to gain attention from parents or potential mates.

The term ___________ refers to the process of evolution by natural selection has produced solutions to the two basic problems of life keyed on by Darwin and Buss.

Evolutionary theory of personality rates high ______________________.

David Buss states that the evolutionary process of natural and sexual selection and chance results in three distinct outcomes: adaptations,by-products and noise.Define and discuss these three distinct outcome.

Psychological mechanisms relevant to personality can be grouped into _______ main categories.

E.O.Wilson when he argued for a merger of the biological and social sciences and dubbed his movement

HYPERLINK "" 50.Evolutionary theory of personality's concept of humanity is most surprising due to its stance on __________________.

Who were the first thinkers to argue for an evolutionary perspective of psychological thought and behavior?

Which statement is most true for the evolutionary theory of personality as it relates as a guide for practitioners in psychology:

Define,explain,and discuss briefly the three different types of selection focused on by evolutionary theorists.

Which one of following theorists laid the foundation for the modern theory of evolution?