Match Each Definition with the Appropriate Condition or Disease

question 13

Multiple Choice

Match each definition with the appropriate condition or disease.
-infectious disease

• A)​disease acquired in a hospital or clinic
• B)​illness caused by pathogenic organisms
• C)​illness without known cause
• D)​pathologic condition caused by an absent or defective gene
• E)​unfavorable response arising from a medical treatment

Identify evolutionary theories explaining personality traits, mate selection, and mating systems.

Comprehend the significance of basic personality traits across cultures for survival and reproduction.

Understand parental investment theory and its implications on mate selection and offspring rearing.

Grasp the evolutionary perspectives on gender differences in mate preferences and mating systems.

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Definitions:

Evolutionary Psychological Perspectives

Evolutionary Psychological Perspectives offer explanations for mental and psychological traits as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection.

Evolutionary Psychology

An approach in both natural and social sciences that analyzes psychological structures through the lens of contemporary evolutionary theories.

Attachment Theory

A psychological, evolutionary, and ethological theory concerning relationships between humans, particularly long-term relationships between parents and children.

Ainsworth's Strange Situation

A procedure developed by Mary Ainsworth in the 1970s to assess patterns of attachment in young children through observations of their behavior when separated and reunited with their caregiver.