AP PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGYS HISTORY APPROACHES

PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS HISTORY

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Professor Crisman believes that most women prefer tall and physically strong partners because this preference enhanced the survival of our ancestors’ genes. This viewpoint best illustrates the ____ perspective.
A
social-cultural
B
behavioral
C
cognitive
D
evolutionary
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Professor Crisman believes that most women prefer tall and physically strong partners because this preference promoted the survival of our ancestors’ genes. This viewpoint best illustrates the perspective. introspection.

Detailed explanation-2: -Functionalism and Evolutionary Psychology James and the other members of the functionalist school (Figure 1.5) were influenced by Charles Darwin’s (1809-1882) theory of natural selection, which proposed that the physical characteristics of animals and humans evolved because they were useful, or functional.

Detailed explanation-3: -Social neuroscience seeks to specify the neural, hormonal, cellular, and genetic mechanisms underlying social behavior, and in so doing to understand the associations and influences between social and biological levels of organization.

Detailed explanation-4: -Which psychological perspective is most likely to be concerned with identifying the powers and the limits of human reasoning? cognitive.

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