11.3 Aggression and violence

Question 1

Aggression

Answer 1

intentional injury or harm to another person

Question 2

emotional self-regulation

Answer 2

capability to adjust emotions to a desired state and level of intensity

Question 3

instrumental aggression

Answer 3

aggression motivated by the desire to obtain a concrete goal, such as playing with a desirable toy that another child is playing with

Question 4

relational aggression

Answer 4

nonphysical aggression intended to hurt another person’s feelings

Question 5

sociobiologists

Answer 5

scientists who consider the biological roots of social behavior

Question 6

tension-building

Answer 6

first stage of marital aggression; where the batterer becomes upset and shows dissatisfaction initially through verbal abuse

Question 7

acute battering incident

Answer 7

second stage of marital aggression; where physical abuse actually occurs

Question 8

loving contrition stage

Answer 8

third stage of marital aggression; where the batterer feels remorse and apologizes for his actions

Question 9

cycle of violence hypothesis

Answer 9

says that abuse and neglect of children lead them to be predisposed to abusiveness as adults

Question 10

elder abuse

Answer 10

the physical of psychological mistreatment or neglect of elderly individuals; may affect as many as 11% of the elderly