A Large-Scale Survey of More Than 10,000 People in 37

question 144

Multiple Choice

A large-scale survey of more than 10,000 people in 37 different cultures revealed that:

• A) only individualistic cultures view romantic love as a necessary ingredient in marriage.
• B) women are most interested in an attractive, youthful sexual partner.
• C) men and women in all 37 cultures ranked "mutual attraction and love" as the most important factor in their choice of a mate.
• D) females are less interested than men in mating strategies but engage in these activities because of cultural rules that call for such strategies.

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Definitions:

Egocentrism

A cognitive bias where an individual is unable to understand or assume any perspective other than their own, commonly seen in early child development stages.

Concrete Operations

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development where children aged 7 to 11 years can logically think about concrete events and objects.

Bilingual

Using or capable of using two languages with nearly equal or equal facility.

Giftedness

A term used to describe individuals, often children, who exhibit high levels of aptitude or competence in one or more domains such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity.