The Reward Principle Helps Explain Why

question 21

Multiple Choice

The reward principle helps explain why

• A) proximity is rewarding.
• B) if others have similar opinions, we feel rewarded because we presume that they like us in return.
• C) we like to be liked and love to be loved.
• D) All of the above

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Definitions:

Parental Investment

The time, energy, and resources parents devote to the upbringing and well-being of their offspring.

Kin Selection

A principle of evolutionary strategy that favors the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction.

Transference

The redirection of feelings or desires, particularly from childhood, toward a new object or individual in psychoanalysis.

Evolutionary View

A perspective that explains the development of physical traits and behaviors in terms of their adaptive success and contribution to reproductive fitness.