Sexual selection/Mate Choice

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Created on: 21-04-23 15:18

Define 'anisogamy'

The differences between male and female gametes

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Describe 'Inter-sexual selection'

Referred to as ‘female choice' because it's based on the idea that due to the greater investment of time, energy and resources required from a female to raise a child, females need to be more careful when choosing a partner.

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Discuss the Clark and Hatfield study as support for intersexual selection

They asked male and female student volunteers to approach opposite sex students individually on a university campus, asking the same question: ‘Will you go to bed with me tonight?’ They found 75% of males agreed and no females did.

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Describe 'Intra-sexual selection'

Referred to as the 'male strategy'. It refers to the evolutionarily developed features that allow a male to compete with other males for a female mate (favours physically strong and aggressive males).

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How does paternal certainty increase jealousy?

Buss explains the difference in jealousy between males and females: males tend to be more jealous of their partner’s sexual infidelity, because this could result in raising someone else's child. Females, on the other hand, are more jealous of their partne

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Study into differences of jealousy in genders.

Buss found that male students showed greater distress (measured by galvanic skin response) when asked to imagine partner’s sexual infidelity, while women were more distressed by thoughts of emotional infidelity.

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Weaknesses of evolutionary explanations.

- Assumes heterosexuality
-Cultural traditions may be just as important as evolutionary forces
- Biologically reductionist
- Hard determinism

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What is Bullers stance on evolutionary explanations?

Claims that evolutionary psychologists are mistaken in their claims of a universal female preference for high-status men as mates. The majority of studies have been carried out on female undergraduate students. These women expect to achieve high education

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