BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
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extent to which certain gender differences in sexual behavior are common to all cultures.
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impact of genetic predispositions on human sexual behavior.
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impact of cultural expectations on human sexual behavior.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Evolutionary psychologists are frequently criticized for ignoring the vast bodies of literature in psychology, philosophy, politics and social studies.
Detailed explanation-2: -A frequent criticism of evolutionary psychology is that its theories and assumptions are not falsifiable. One theory, for example, asserts that human social behavior is guided by specific evolved predispositions that were selected because they enhanced reproductive success during human evolutionary history.
Detailed explanation-3: -Critics of evolutionary psychology are most likely to suggest that it: 1) inhibits progressive efforts to change common social practices. 2) overestimates the impact of genetic mutations on human personality. 3) underestimates the extent to which similar gender differences are found in all cultures.
Detailed explanation-4: -Evolutionary psychology assumes that human behaviour is being shaped, indeed determined, by processes of natural selection: those modes of behaviour that favour the replication of the genome will preferentially survive.