Exam 4: Aggression

Archer's (1982) research showed that levels of aggression were:

Psychologists explain rape as the rapist having maladaptive sexuality, or being:

Patterson et al. (1989) described the home environment most likely to foster aggressive behaviour as:

Instrumental aggression is directed towards:

Freud's explanation of a lynch mob as the aggressive explosion following the build-up of thanatos calls the mob:

Exposure to a behaviour that initially seems aggressive can make it become more usual, so inhibitions about such behaviour are reduced, and this is known as:

Virkkunen's (1985) research shows a link between violence and lower levels of:

Research suggests that institutional aggression is more likely if the group is isolated from everyday life and has:

Reactive aggression is a:

Social learning theory states that important factors include:

MAOA deficiency is linked to aggression because it is involved in the:

Infidelity and jealousy can be explained as doubting the partner's:

The frustration-aggression hypothesis is criticized for not making a distinction between frustration that is _____ and that which is not:

The prison guard uniforms in Zimbardo's prison experiment and the white cloaks and hoods of his electric shocks experiment have been said to have acted as:

Key concepts of social learning theory include:

Research has shown that the cognitive activity involved in playing violent video games reduces the brain's:

Dysfunctional power systems theory suggests key factors for institutional aggression are stereotyping and:

Anderson and Dill (2000) suggest that the effects of violent video games are more powerful that those of watching violent films or TV programmes because the game playing is more:

The loss of personal identity and, as a result, personal responsibility when in a crowd or masked is known as:

Criticisms of Mead's (1935) classic cross-cultural research include: