Aggression

Question 1

Agression

Answer 1

Intentional aim to cause harm to another individual or group. Intentional behavior aimed at causing physical harm or psychological pain to another person

Question 2

Hostile Agression

Answer 2

aggression based on emotions ex.football. Aggression stemming of anger and aimed at inflicting pain or injury

Question 3

Instrumental Agression

Answer 3

aggression based on the attempt to obtain an objective ex.football Aggression as a means to some goal other than causing pain

Question 4

Agression to send messages

Answer 4

distributions of resources study to look at instrumental aggression economists created study

8/8 or 9/6 you and your partner get $8 and $8

first choice
8/8 or 9/6

other’s choice
8/8 or 5/11

your final choice
8/8 or 8/6

Question 5

Aggression from a focus on the self

Answer 5

Prisoner’s Dilemma: x or y
x you earn extra credit or lose credit
y you earn extra credit or lose credit

Common’s Dilemma (freeloading)
Farmers and sheep make arrangements to share a lot of grass. Farmers break agreement and take advantage of stay in lot they stay longer

water/electricity

Question 6

Agression for bonding, status, or other personal gain

Answer 6

rumors, teasing

Question 7

The Original Dilemma

Answer 7

John Nash (Beautiful mind movie)
Situation in prison: Benefits you to confess as a group always confess
Most people Confess 5yrs is better than 20 yrs if they both remain silent then they leave prison the same time

Through the group benefits most by not confessing, but the focus for people shifts from what benefits the individual the most

Question 8

Kuo’s caged cat and rat study (1961)

Answer 8

Cat had less hostility with rats when raised together

Question 9

Edible-Eibesfeldt’s solitary rats study (1963)

Answer 9

Rats either attacked of ran away when seeing another rat this rat was almost isolated

Question 10

Bonobo’s Study

Answer 10

sex is used to relieve tension in groups

Question 11

Southern Honor

Answer 11

Southerners are more aggressive then Northerners

Question 12

Pygmy tribes of central Africa

Answer 12

-are not as aggressive and they were attacked by other tribes

Question 13

Gender aggression

Answer 13

Males-physical (testosterones)
look at fraternities and prisons who had the highest tester ones who were also the most aggressive
Females- non physical mental and emotional

Question 14

Factors of aggression

Answer 14

-heat city crime rates, room manipulation researchers play with heat and cooler conditions when playing a game

Question 15

Pain and Discomfort study

Answer 15

in warm condition people were not as aggressive cold water people shocked more and more aggressive

Question 16

Frustration

Answer 16

blocking of goals and desires

Question 17

Barker, Dembo, & Lewin 1941 study

Answer 17

children and waiting for toys experiment some researchers let children play with toys others were stop to play with less desirable toys

Question 18

Closeness of the Goals Harris 1976

Answer 18

Grocery line experiment a confederate would allow a confederate allow to cut him in front depending on what part of the line if in the middle people were aggressive and in front more aggressive.

Question 19

Noise and Aggression study 1974

Berkowitz & Le Page 1967

Answer 19

shocking experiment a person would shock another person whenever they heard background noise in B & L.P experiment used rooms that had violent equipment (guns for ex. ) people who associated with guns shocked longer and those with badminton balls shocked less

Question 20

Bonobo doll’s

Answer 20

Albert Bandura’s social learning theory social behavior through exposure to a model and their actions

modeling-the process of learning appropriate social behavior through exposure to a model and their actions. Children in the experiment you had a model aggressive began to imitate aggressive behavior or do more