Samantha, a seven-year-old girl, suffers from a chronic kidney disease. Her doctor suggests an immediate kidney transplant for her to survive. Sarah, Samantha's mother, readily donates her kidney, and Samantha recovers from her condition after a successful surgery. In the context of evolutionary psychology, which of the following is exemplified in this scenario?
A. group selection
B. kin selection
C. indirect reciprocity
D. direct reciprocity
Answer: B
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A. hindsight bias B. confirmation bias C. negativity bias D. representativeness heuristic
Which of the following is not an assumption of the spreading activation model? Spreading activation
a. increases in strength over time. b. decreases in strength as it travels outward. c. reaches more typical category members before less typical members. d. causes semantic priming.
The way that psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen describes the differences between male and female brain that may solve the puzzle of autism is called
a) extreme development. b) extreme male brain. c) extreme developmental delay. d) pervasive developmental delay.
By the mid-1950s, the population in American mental hospitals had risen to about __________.
A. 250,000 B. 500,000 C. 750,000 D. 1,000,000