Exam 12: Aggression: Why Do We Hurt Other People Can We Prevent It

Kristi has been very frustrated in her search for the perfect apartment that costs next to nothing.According to frustration-aggression theory, what would most likely increase the likelihood that Kristi's frustration will lead to aggressive behavior?

________ reflects the idea that if people can "aggress" in harmless ways, built-up aggressive energies will diminish, reducing the odds of further aggressive behavior.

Shortly after Mary and Robert were married, he became somewhat aggressive to other men who showed an interest in his wife, and made claims like, "Anyone who lays a hand on my woman has to go through me first." Such claims and aggression are explained by evolutionary theory as

Who would be more likely to expect an apology?

Based on research presented in the text, who would likely have the highest salary on the professional hockey team?

Who is most likely to be aggressive?

Jim watches a heavy dose of violent TV cop shows.According to research presented in the text, what is one likely outcome of this behavior? Jim will

Your six-year-old brother has developed some very distressing habits.He has become increasingly aggressive, destroying toys, hitting the neighbors' children, and threatening them with violence to take their toys away.You want to stop your little brother's destructive behavior using punishment.What would be the best way to do this?

Based on information presented in your text, what are the two evolutionary reasons why males are aggressive?

A researcher (Pennebaker, 1990) asked people who had experienced a traumatic event to describe the event and how they experienced it.Six months later, he found that these people

Berkowitz and Le Page (1967) purposely angered the participants.Then they were left in a room with either a gun lying around or a badminton racket.Later, the participants were given the chance to administer electric shocks (not really) to a fellow college student.What was the independent variable of this research?

Which of the following is the best example of instrumental aggression?

Olweus (1991) was able to curtail bullying in a Norwegian school system by training administrators and teachers to be vigilant and to make timely and reasonable interventions.The levels of punishment found to be effective in these studies are fairly mild, consistent with the principles of

A little girl watches a television cartoon in which a woman yanks a child by the hair and screams at her.After seeing the cartoon, the little girl acts out this same interaction with her doll.This is an example of

________ refers to the ability to experience events and emotions the way that another person does.

Which research findings below provide the soundest evidence that excessive heat causes greater aggression?

________ is to aggression as ________ is to peaceable solutions.

A teacher at a preschool tries to show some rowdy children how to "play nice." She shows them a doll hitting her, and her hugging the doll in response.The teacher's behavior is an example of

One determinant of whether we will respond aggressively when provoked is whether

Which of the following is true about whether or not punishing aggression reduced aggressive behavior?