Aggression 2

Question 1

Describe the culture of honour

Answer 1

Defined by member’s strong concern about their own and other’s reputations. Payback is important as leads to hypersensitivity to insults, violence used against insults.

Question 2

Explain how people misinterpretate other’s attitudes

Answer 2

Asked about own attitude on a political issue and attitudes of political opponents on it. Estimate opponent’s attitudes as more extreme. Actually are more similar than we think.

Question 3

Describe violence in stepfamilies (Evo-psych argument Daly and Wilson)

Answer 3

Natural selection - should donate resources to offspring, increases survival chances of offspring to help genes survive. So should invest less in stepchildren

Question 4

List the 5 issues with the Evo-psych argument

Answer 4

Survival of stepchildren can increase survival chances of genes as biological children helped by stepchildren. If motivated by genetic concerns, aggression rates should be consistent across cultures. Overall incident rates are small. Aggressive stepparents could be just as aggressive to biological children. Parent should refuse resources to any ‘imperfect’ if genes are motive

Question 5

Name the 3 types of culture

Answer 5

Dignity, honour and face

Question 6

Describe dignity culture

Answer 6

Strong, internal sense of self-worth, independent derived from self. US North, parts of Europe

Question 7

What is the honour culture concerned with?

Answer 7

Concerned with respect, strong focus on competition, individualistic. US South, Latin

Question 8

Describe face culture

Answer 8

Dictated by others, about appearance, guided by status and hierarchy. Parts of Asia

Question 9

State the biggest predictor of aggression

Answer 9

Gender

Question 10

Summarise Condry & Condry’s study on babies and gender

Answer 10

Shown baby, said angry if told it was a boy, scared if it was a girl. Boys discouraged from showing emotions, supporting theory men are socialised into being more aggressive.

Question 11

Is a complex or simple attitude better?

Answer 11

Politicians rhetoric is simple before being elected whilst campaigning. Becomes more complex after being elected - good to be complex as resist blaming other party, express tolerance of opponent’s views, de-emphasise differences between parties