Question 1
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Difficult to operationally define at it is partly shaped by societal and cultural norms.
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Aggression (p. 471-472)
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Biosocial Theoretical Positions (p. 476)
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Frustration-aggression hypothesis (p. 477)
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Learning by vicarious experience (p. 479)
Question 2
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What are some proposed definitions for aggression?
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Behaviour resulting in personal injury or destruction of property
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Behaviour intended to harm another of the same species
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Intentional infliction of some form of harm on others
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Desire to give all your love and affection to the dog instead of the friends you are visiting
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Eating all of the chocolate
Question 3
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Defines a theorietical term in a way that allows it to be manipulated.
Question 4
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Innate drive or impulse, genetically transmitted.
Question 5
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Innate death instinct.
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Thanatos (p. 422)
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Fighting instinct (p. 475)
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Frustration-aggression hypothesis (p. 477)
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Excitation-transfer model (p. 477)
Question 6
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Behaviour is genetically determined and is controlled by natural selection.
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Ethology (p. 474)
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Evolutionary social psychology (p. 475-476)
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Biosocial Theoretical Positions (p. 476)
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Social learning theory (p. 478)
Question 7
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What are two compentents that contribute towards ethology?
Question 8
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Specific stimuli in the environment thought by ethologists to trigger aggressive responses.
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Releasers (p. 474)
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Instinct (p. 474)
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Modelling (p. 480)
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Script (p. 480)
Question 9
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An extension of evolutionary psychology that views complex social behaviour as adaptive, helping the individual, kin and the species as a while to survive.
Question 10
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An extension of evolutionary psychology that views complex social behaviour as adaptive, helping the individual, kin and the species as a whole to survive.
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Evolutionary social psychology (p. 475-476)
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Biosocial Theoretical Positions (p. 476)
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Social learning theory (p. 478)
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Attachment styles (p. 483)
Question 11
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In the context of aggression, theories that emphasise an innate component, though not the existence of a full-blown instinct.
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Biosocial Theoretical Positions (p. 476)
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Social learning theory (p. 478)
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Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
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General Aggression Model (p. 492)
Question 12
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Through the biosocial theories view of instinct, what concepts share this view?
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Frustration-aggression hypothesis (p. 477)
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Excitation-transfer model (p. 477)
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Learning by direct experience (p. 479)
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Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
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Sexual selection theory (p. 484)
Question 13
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Theory that all frustration leads to aggression, and all aggression comes from frustration. Used to explain prejudice and intergroup aggression.
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Frustration-aggression hypothesis (p. 477)
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Excitation-transfer model (p. 477)
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Sociocultural theory (p. 484)
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Cathartic hypothesis (p. 484)
Question 14
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The expression of aggression is a function of learnt behaviour, some excitation from another source, and the person’s interpretation of the arousal state.
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Excitation-transfer model (p. 477)
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Frustration-aggression hypothesis (p. 477)
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Social learning theory (p. 478)
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Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
Question 15
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The view championed by Bandura that human social behaviour is not innate but learnt from appropriate models.
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Social learning theory (p. 478)
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Biosocial Theoretical Positions (p. 476)
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Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
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Sexual selection theory (p. 484)
Question 16
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Components of Social learning theory.
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Learning by direct experience (p. 479)
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Learning by vicarious experience (p. 479)
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Relative deprivation (p. 493)
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Attachment styles (p. 483)
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Type A personality (p. 483)
Question 17
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Acquiring a behaviour because we were rewarded for it.
Question 18
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Acquiring a behaviour after observing that another person was rewarded for it.
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Learning by vicarious experience (p. 479)
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Learning by direct experience (p. 479)
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Excitation-transfer model (p. 477)
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Script (p. 480)
Question 19
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Tendency for a person to reproduce the actions, attitudes and emotional responses exhibited by a real-life or symbolic model. Also called observational learning.
Question 20
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A schema about an event.
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Script (p. 480)
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Instinct (p. 474)
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Ethology (p. 474)
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Personality
Question 21
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A sense of having less than we feel entitled to.
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Relative deprivation (p. 493)
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Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
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Type A personality (p. 483)
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Dehumanisation (p. 488)
Question 22
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Sherif’s theory of intergroup conflict that explains intergroup behaviour in terms of the nature of goal relations between groups.
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Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
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Social learning theory (p. 478)
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Biosocial Theoretical Positions (p. 476)
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Sociocultural theory (p. 484)
Question 23
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Descriptions of the nature of people’s close relationships, thought to be established in childhood.
Question 24
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The ‘coronary-prone’ personality – a behavioural correlate of heart disease characterised by striving to achieve, time urgency, competitiveness and hostility.
Question 25
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Psychological gender differences are determined by individuals’ adaptations to restrictions based on their gender in their society. Also called social role theory.
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Sociocultural theory (p. 484)
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Sexual selection theory (p. 484)
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Cathartic hypothesis (p. 484)
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General Aggression Model (p. 492)
Question 26
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Sex differences in behaviour are determined by evolutionary history rather than society.
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Sexual selection theory (p. 484)
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Sociocultural theory (p. 484)
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Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
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Social learning theory (p. 478)
Question 27
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A dramatic release of pent-up feelings: the idea that aggressive motivation is ‘drained’ by acting against a frustrating object (or substitute), or by a vicarious experience.
Question 28
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The notion that acting aggressively, or even just viewing aggressive material, reduces feelings of anger and aggression.
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Cathartic hypothesis (p. 484)
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Catharsis (p. 484-486)
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Type A personality (p. 483)
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Collective aggression (p. 488)
Question 29
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A breakdown in the learnt controls (social mores) against behaving impulsively or, in this context, aggressively. For some people, alcohol has a disinhibiting effect.
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Disinhibition (p. 488)
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Deindividuation (p. 488)
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Dehumanisation (p. 488)
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Desensitisation (p. 497)
Question 30
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Process whereby people lose their sense of socialised individual identity and engage in unsocialised, often antisocial, behaviours.
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Deindividuation (p. 488)
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Disinhibition (p. 488)
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Dehumanisation (p. 488)
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Desensitisation (p. 497)
Question 31
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Stripping people of their dignity and humanity.
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Dehumanisation (p. 488)
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Deindividuation (p. 488)
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Disinhibition (p. 488)
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Desensitisation (p. 497)
Question 32
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Unified aggression by a group of individuals, who may not even know one another, against another individual or group.
Question 33
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Sex-stereotypical attributes of a person.
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Gender (p. 494)
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Cultural norms (p. 494)
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Hormones (p. 483-484)
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Personality
Question 34
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What contributes towards cultural variation of aggression?
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Cultural norms (p. 494)
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Culture of honour (p. 495-496)
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Subculture of violence (p. 496)
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Machismo (p. 496)
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Domestic violence (p. 503)
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Crowding (p. 490-491)
Question 35
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Norms whose origin is part of the tradition of a culture.
Question 36
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A culture that endorses male violence as a way of addressing threats to social reputation or economic position.
Question 37
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A subgroup of society in which a higher level of violence is accepted as the norm.
Question 38
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A code in which challenges, abuse and even differences of opinion must be met with fists or other weapons.
Question 39
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A serious reduction in a person’s responsiveness to material that usually evokes a strong emotional reaction, such as violence or sexuality.
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Desensitisation (p. 497)
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Disinhibition (p. 488)
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Deindividuation (p. 488)
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Dehumanisation (p. 488)
Question 40
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Anderson’s model that includes both personal and situational factors, and cognitive and affective processes in accounting for different kinds of aggression.
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General Aggression Model (p. 492)
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Institutionalised aggression (p. 507)
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Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
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Biosocial Theoretical Positions (p. 476)
Question 41
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Aggression that is given formal or informal recognition and social legitimacy by being incorporated into rules and norms.
Question 42
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What profressions are considered to use instutionalised aggression?
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National defence
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Police
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Psychologists
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Sport
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Massage therapist
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Dentist
Question 43
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How do we reduce aggression in families?
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Not rewarding acts of violence
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Rewarding non-aggressive behaviour
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Avoiding punishing behaviour
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Transference
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Catharsis
Question 44
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How do we reduce aggression at an interpersonal level?
Question 45
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How do we reduce aggression at a societal level?