Extending the Red Queen Metaphor to Explain the Effects That

question 12

Multiple Choice

Extending the Red Queen metaphor to explain the effects that adopting an agricultural lifestyle has on human biocultural experience highlights:

• A) how, to survive, our ancestors had to constantly adapt to the side effects brought about by adopting agriculture.
• B) the inapplicability of the 'niche construction' concept.
• C) the stability of the environment.
• D) how power struggles over who will rule a group drive social change.
• E) the real division between nature and nurture.

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Definitions:

Conservational Play

A stage in child development identified by Jean Piaget, where children comprehend that quantity remains the same despite changes in form or appearance, usually observed in activities involving objects.

Preoperational Stage

In Piaget’s theory, the second major stage of cognitive development, in which symbolic thought expands but children cannot yet use logic.

Sensorimotor Stage

This is the first stage of Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where infants learn about the world through their senses and actions.

Concrete Operations

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development where children aged 7-11 start thinking logically about concrete events but still struggle with abstract concepts.