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6. Intersexual Competition is...

  • Preference of certain characteristics of the opposite sex
  • Members of one sex competing for access to each other
  • Members of one sex compete for access to members of the other
  • Preference for certain characteristics of the same sex

7. Mead is ______ for the Evolutionary Approach to Gender

  • Challenge
  • Support

8. Gender Behaviours have developed to...

  • Develop the human species
  • allow humans to progress and evolve
  • Aid survival and give an evolutionary advantage
  • Aid survival

9. Producing lots of sperm is a...

  • Male mating strategy
  • Female mating strategy

10. Looking for signs of fertility is a...

  • Male mating strategy
  • Female mating strategy

11. The way they have evolved to be bigger and stronger is a...

  • Male mating strategy
  • Female mating strategy

12. Cross cultural study comparing gender behaviours in non industrialised societies found that men typically hunted and women looked after children

  • Mead
  • Wood and Eagly
  • Kenrick et al
  • Hargreaves

13. Xavante Hunter gatherers found pattern of reproduction and offspring tends ti reflect that of most of the people suggesting an evolutionary basis

  • Wood and Eagly
  • Kenrick et al
  • Mead
  • Hines

14. Study on social groups in Papua New Guinea providing evidence of cultural role differences and found different tribes had different gender characteristics depending on location suggesting gender is culturally determined

  • Mead
  • Kenrick et al
  • Wood and Eagly
  • Hargreaves