Evolutionary Perspectives on Helping Behavior Suggest That Individuals

question 53

Multiple Choice

Evolutionary perspectives on helping behavior suggest that individuals

• A) sometimes offer assistance to others even when doing so puts their own survival at great risk.
• B) are more likely to offer help to attractive others who seem to be good potential mates.
• C) are more likely to offer help to distant versus close relatives.
• D) who only look out for themselves tend to be most successful from a reproductive standpoint.

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Definitions:

Random Sample

A subset of individuals chosen from a larger set where each individual has an equal chance of being selected, designed to represent the larger group.

Waiting Time

The period between a request or need for service and the actual provision of that service, often analyzed in queue theory and service operations.

Standard Deviation

Standard deviation is a measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in a data set differ from the mean.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is believed to contain the value of an unknown population parameter with a certain probability.