Ginger Wants to Marry Someone Who Will Provide Financial Security

question 7

Multiple Choice

Ginger wants to marry someone who will provide financial security for her children-to-be. Evolutionary psychologists would most likely attribute Ginger's motivation to

• A) social learning.
• B) genetic predispositions.
• C) her parents' influence.
• D) her being the youngest in a family of six.

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Definitions:

Overregularization

This refers to a common phenomenon in language learning where individuals apply regular grammatical rules to words that are exceptions, often observed in children mastering a language.

Adaptive Problems

Challenges that require adjustment or change in behavior or strategies to effectively address them.

Evolutionary Psychologists

Researchers who study how evolutionary principles, such as natural selection and adaptation, influence human thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.