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Question 1

study: does venting decreases or increases anger?

Answer 1

How?

• participants should hit a punching bag and thought about the person which angered them
• Next they could give loud blasts of noise to the person

=> people who were hiting felt more angrier than control group
=> doing nothing at all was more effective

Question 2

Study: video games and aggression

Answer 2

• it was a meta analytical test
• data from nealy 100 studies with more than 35.000 participants

=> more aggressive people are attracted to aggressive video games
=> correlation between interest and personality
=> video games don’t lead to aggression

=> has priming affect but not on long term

Question 3

How can we measure aggression?

Answer 3

• behaviour: hitting plastic doll, pressing button -> el. shock
• intention: willingness to use agression in lab
• rating by self or others
• inderect aggression: spreading rumors …

Question 4

Where aggression comes from?

Answer 4

nature-nurture: Biological explanation and social influences

Question 5

Frustration Agression theory

Answer 5

frustration leads to agression and the other way around

Question 6

Excitation-transfer model

Answer 6

expression from agression comes from:

1. learnt behaviour
2. excitation from another source
3. persons interpretation of arousal state

Question 7

social learning theories

Answer 7

• experience
• vicarious experience (stellvertretend)
• factors like, childhood experiences …
• modelling
• scripts

Question 8

sociocultural theory

Answer 8

gender differences determined by society -> how do I ausdrücke egression …

Question 9

sexual selection theory

Answer 9

sex differences are determined by evolutionary history rather society

Question 10

Cathartic hypothesis

Answer 10

acting agressively reduces feeling of aggression -> is not true!

Question 11

why do people act out of character?

Answer 11

• disinhibition: Breakdown in learned control (alkohol)
• deindividuation: unsocial behaviour …
• dehumanization: Würde und Menschlichkeit wird abgelegt

Question 12

aggression model

Answer 12

personal or social?

• > affect cognition arousal
• > Thoughtful or Impulsive?
• > social encounter

Question 13

relative deprivation

Answer 13

feeling of heaving less than we are entitled to

Question 14

levels of explanation

Answer 14

Milgram: electroshocks; voice of authority
Sherif: nature of conflicts depends of intergroup relations
Bond: individual and society levels of agression