A friend of yours tells you that men will always be more sexually promiscuous than women because, during evolution, the best reproductive strategy for a male primate has been to try to impregnate many females
What kind of evidence would you need to evaluate this claim?
What will be an ideal response?
You would not want to look just for confirming evidence (recall the principle of falsifiability from Chapter 2); you would want to look also for evidence of female promiscuity and male monogamy among humans and other species, and changes in human sexual customs in response to changing social conditions.
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In Eysenck's model of personality, which of the following is correct about extraversion introversion?
A. It is an example of a habitual response. B. It is the opposite of neuroticism. C. It is one of two basic personality dimensions. D. It is one of five basic personality dimensions.
For complete counterbalancing:
a. order and time effects must be eliminated. b. each condition must occur equally often. c. each condition must precede and follow all other conditions an equal number of times. d. each condition must occur equally often and precede and follow all other conditions an equal number of times.
When we ask, “Are the inferences being made from a set of test scores appropriate?” we are referring to
a. internal consistency. b. face validity. c. reliability. d. validity.
Which statement is true about sexually transmitted infections?
A) Men are at a greater risk than women for long-term health consequences from STIs. B) The incidence of HIV-positive adults is higher in the United States than in other industrialized nations. C) HIV/AIDS remains a serious risk, with heterosexual men bearing the greatest burden for the disease. D) The annual number of U.S. new HIV infections—about 50,000—has risen sharply since the late 1990s.