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PSY204 - Week 12 - Aggression - Chapter 12 - Practice quiz
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Question 1

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Difficult to operationally define at it is partly shaped by societal and cultural norms.
Answer
  • Aggression (p. 471-472)
  • Biosocial Theoretical Positions (p. 476)
  • Frustration-aggression hypothesis (p. 477)
  • Learning by vicarious experience (p. 479)

Question 2

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What are some proposed definitions for aggression?
Answer
  • Behaviour resulting in personal injury or destruction of property
  • Behaviour intended to harm another of the same species
  • Intentional infliction of some form of harm on others
  • Desire to give all your love and affection to the dog instead of the friends you are visiting
  • Eating all of the chocolate

Question 3

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Defines a theorietical term in a way that allows it to be manipulated.
Answer
  • Operational definition (p. 472)
  • Evolutionary social psychology (p. 475-476)
  • Modelling (p. 480)
  • Script (p. 480)

Question 4

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Innate drive or impulse, genetically transmitted.
Answer
  • Instinct (p. 474)
  • Modelling (p. 480)
  • Relative deprivation (p. 493)
  • Disinhibition (p. 488)

Question 5

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Innate death instinct.
Answer
  • Thanatos (p. 422)
  • Fighting instinct (p. 475)
  • Frustration-aggression hypothesis (p. 477)
  • Excitation-transfer model (p. 477)

Question 6

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Behaviour is genetically determined and is controlled by natural selection.
Answer
  • Ethology (p. 474)
  • Evolutionary social psychology (p. 475-476)
  • Biosocial Theoretical Positions (p. 476)
  • Social learning theory (p. 478)

Question 7

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What are two compentents that contribute towards ethology?
Answer
  • Releasers (p. 474)
  • Fighting instinct (p. 475)
  • Script (p. 480)
  • Modelling (p. 480)

Question 8

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Specific stimuli in the environment thought by ethologists to trigger aggressive responses.
Answer
  • Releasers (p. 474)
  • Instinct (p. 474)
  • Modelling (p. 480)
  • 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.
Answer
  • Fighting instinct (p. 475)
  • Releasers (p. 474)
  • Thanatos (p. 422)
  • Instinct (p. 474)

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.
Answer
  • Evolutionary social psychology (p. 475-476)
  • Biosocial Theoretical Positions (p. 476)
  • Social learning theory (p. 478)
  • 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.
Answer
  • Biosocial Theoretical Positions (p. 476)
  • Social learning theory (p. 478)
  • Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
  • General Aggression Model (p. 492)

Question 12

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Through the biosocial theories view of instinct, what concepts share this view?
Answer
  • Frustration-aggression hypothesis (p. 477)
  • Excitation-transfer model (p. 477)
  • Learning by direct experience (p. 479)
  • Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
  • 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.
Answer
  • Frustration-aggression hypothesis (p. 477)
  • Excitation-transfer model (p. 477)
  • Sociocultural theory (p. 484)
  • 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.
Answer
  • Excitation-transfer model (p. 477)
  • Frustration-aggression hypothesis (p. 477)
  • Social learning theory (p. 478)
  • 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.
Answer
  • Social learning theory (p. 478)
  • Biosocial Theoretical Positions (p. 476)
  • Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
  • Sexual selection theory (p. 484)

Question 16

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Components of Social learning theory.
Answer
  • Learning by direct experience (p. 479)
  • Learning by vicarious experience (p. 479)
  • Relative deprivation (p. 493)
  • Attachment styles (p. 483)
  • Type A personality (p. 483)

Question 17

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Acquiring a behaviour because we were rewarded for it.
Answer
  • Learning by direct experience (p. 479)
  • Learning by vicarious experience (p. 479)
  • Script (p. 480)
  • Hormones (p. 483-484)

Question 18

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Acquiring a behaviour after observing that another person was rewarded for it.
Answer
  • Learning by vicarious experience (p. 479)
  • Learning by direct experience (p. 479)
  • Excitation-transfer model (p. 477)
  • 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.
Answer
  • Modelling (p. 480)
  • Script (p. 480)
  • Gender and socialisation (p. 484)
  • Disinhibition (p. 488)

Question 20

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A schema about an event.
Answer
  • Script (p. 480)
  • Instinct (p. 474)
  • Ethology (p. 474)
  • Personality

Question 21

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A sense of having less than we feel entitled to.
Answer
  • Relative deprivation (p. 493)
  • Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
  • Type A personality (p. 483)
  • 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.
Answer
  • Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
  • Social learning theory (p. 478)
  • Biosocial Theoretical Positions (p. 476)
  • 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.
Answer
  • Attachment styles (p. 483)
  • Hormones (p. 483-484)
  • Catharsis (p. 484-486)
  • Collective aggression (p. 488)

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.
Answer
  • Type A personality (p. 483)
  • Alcohol (p. 486-488)
  • Deindividuation (p. 488)
  • Dehumanisation (p. 488)

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.
Answer
  • Sociocultural theory (p. 484)
  • Sexual selection theory (p. 484)
  • Cathartic hypothesis (p. 484)
  • General Aggression Model (p. 492)

Question 26

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Sex differences in behaviour are determined by evolutionary history rather than society.
Answer
  • Sexual selection theory (p. 484)
  • Sociocultural theory (p. 484)
  • Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
  • 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.
Answer
  • Catharsis (p. 484-486)
  • Cathartic hypothesis (p. 484)
  • General Aggression Model (p. 492)
  • Interpersonal aggression

Question 28

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The notion that acting aggressively, or even just viewing aggressive material, reduces feelings of anger and aggression.
Answer
  • Cathartic hypothesis (p. 484)
  • Catharsis (p. 484-486)
  • Type A personality (p. 483)
  • 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.
Answer
  • Disinhibition (p. 488)
  • Deindividuation (p. 488)
  • Dehumanisation (p. 488)
  • 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.
Answer
  • Deindividuation (p. 488)
  • Disinhibition (p. 488)
  • Dehumanisation (p. 488)
  • Desensitisation (p. 497)

Question 31

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Stripping people of their dignity and humanity.
Answer
  • Dehumanisation (p. 488)
  • Deindividuation (p. 488)
  • Disinhibition (p. 488)
  • 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.
Answer
  • Collective aggression (p. 488)
  • Cultural variation
  • Interpersonal aggression
  • Institutionalised aggression (p. 507)

Question 33

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Sex-stereotypical attributes of a person.
Answer
  • Gender (p. 494)
  • Cultural norms (p. 494)
  • Hormones (p. 483-484)
  • Personality

Question 34

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What contributes towards cultural variation of aggression?
Answer
  • Cultural norms (p. 494)
  • Culture of honour (p. 495-496)
  • Subculture of violence (p. 496)
  • Machismo (p. 496)
  • Domestic violence (p. 503)
  • Crowding (p. 490-491)

Question 35

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Norms whose origin is part of the tradition of a culture.
Answer
  • Cultural norms (p. 494)
  • Culture of honour (p. 495-496)
  • Subculture of violence (p. 496)
  • Machismo (p. 496)

Question 36

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A culture that endorses male violence as a way of addressing threats to social reputation or economic position.
Answer
  • Culture of honour (p. 495-496)
  • Subculture of violence (p. 496)
  • Machismo (p. 496)
  • Cultural norms (p. 494)

Question 37

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A subgroup of society in which a higher level of violence is accepted as the norm.
Answer
  • Subculture of violence (p. 496)
  • Machismo (p. 496)
  • Cultural norms (p. 494)
  • Culture of honour (p. 495-496)

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.
Answer
  • Machismo (p. 496)
  • Subculture of violence (p. 496)
  • Culture of honour (p. 495-496)
  • Cultural norms (p. 494)

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.
Answer
  • Desensitisation (p. 497)
  • Disinhibition (p. 488)
  • Deindividuation (p. 488)
  • 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.
Answer
  • General Aggression Model (p. 492)
  • Institutionalised aggression (p. 507)
  • Realistic conflict theory (p. 422)
  • 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.
Answer
  • Institutionalised aggression (p. 507)
  • Interpersonal aggression
  • Intergroup conflict
  • Mass media (p. 497)

Question 42

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What profressions are considered to use instutionalised aggression?
Answer
  • National defence
  • Police
  • Psychologists
  • Sport
  • Massage therapist
  • Dentist

Question 43

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How do we reduce aggression in families?
Answer
  • Not rewarding acts of violence
  • Rewarding non-aggressive behaviour
  • Avoiding punishing behaviour
  • Transference
  • Catharsis

Question 44

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How do we reduce aggression at an interpersonal level?
Answer
  • Behaviour modification techniques
  • Assertiveness training
  • Social skills training
  • Non-aggressive modelling
  • Bobo the clown
  • Acting in a passive aggressive manner towards others

Question 45

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How do we reduce aggression at a societal level?
Answer
  • Political decisions / laws
  • Peace studies
  • Community will
  • Education
  • Road rage
  • Barking loudly at every stranger we see
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