Aggression

Question 1

What are the different types of aggression?

Answer 1

Instrumental and emotional

Question 2

What is instrumental aggression?

Answer 2

Rational and calculated

Question 3

What is emotional aggression?

Answer 3

Reactive and impulsive

Question 4

Where does Freud argue human aggressions stem from?

Answer 4

Tensions build up between life and death instinct and the pressure is displaced onto other people

Question 5

What is thanatos

Answer 5

a death instinct.

Question 6

What did Lorenz think aggression stemed from?

Answer 6

a ‘fighting instinct’. Evolutionary pressures so it is encoded in our genetic makeup

Question 7

What is a criticism of evolutionary psychology explaining aggression?

Answer 7

Humans are aggressive because theyre aggressive??

circular argument

Question 8

What did Buss and Dedden examine?

Answer 8

Patterns of intra-sexual aggression

Question 9

What did Buss and Dudden find?

Answer 9

Women are gossipy about other women and men dominant aggression over a weaker man

Question 10

What did Bandura’s Bobo study find?

Answer 10

Aggression can be learnt indirectly

Question 11

What did Lievert and Baron investigate?

Answer 11

Children watching a 3 minute clip of either ‘the untouchables’ or a race. They then saw if they chose to help or hinder a boy turning a wheel

Question 12

Did Lievert and Baron see any gender differences?

Answer 12

boys were much more likely to hinder the wheel child than a girl

Question 13

What did Fischer et al study?

Answer 13

participants played 25 minutes of either a violent or non-violent video game and either created an avatar or was set one.

Poor out hot sauce into a glass they want someone else to drink. Those with the violent game and own avatar were most aggressive

Question 14

what did Lightdale and Prentice’s battelfield study show?

Answer 14

Women anonymous, women were more aggressive than men

Question 15

What did Carlsmith and Anderson find about temperature?

Answer 15

The likelihood of a riot is higher when high temperatures are sustained. Frustration

Question 16

Cold conditions can cause frustration how?

Answer 16

Oster- crop failure

Question 17

What is the weapon effect

Answer 17

presence of a weapon or a picture of a weapon leading to more aggressive behaviour

Question 18

What did Berkowitz and LePage do?

Answer 18

Participants answered questions about how to sell a car, if they like the answer they get no electric shocks. Can get up to 10. Confederate gives participant either 1 or 7 shocks. They swap roles. Weapons are left in the room for some.

Question 19

What did Berkowitz and LePage find?

Answer 19

Weapons in the environment meant participants elicited more shocks.

Question 20

Who researched into culture and violence?

Answer 20

Cohen and Nisbett (1997)

Question 21

What did Cohen and Nisbett find?

Answer 21

People are more accepting of honour crimes in the south and west of America. They are more likely to justify the crime