Evolutionary Psychologists Have Identified Crime with Behaviors That Tend to Promote

question 78

Multiple Choice

Evolutionary psychologists have identified crime with behaviors that tend to promote the

• A)affection effort
• B)mating effort
• C)parenting effort
• D)presentation effort Learning Objectives: 10.4 Understand the basic ideas behind an evolutionary view of criminality; 10.5 Differentiate between mating and parenting effort and understand how each is related to the probability of criminal behavior

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Definitions:

Phenomenological Approach

The theoretical view of personality that emphasizes experience, free will, and the meaning of life. Closely related to humanistic psychology and existentialism.

Conscious Awareness

The state of being aware of and able to comprehend one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, and emotions.

Uniquely Human Characteristics

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Personality Puzzle

A metaphor for the complex, multifaceted nature of human personality and the challenge of understanding it through various theoretical and empirical approaches.