Aggression Studies Flashcards
Bandura, Ross and Ross:
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Children who had watched the aggressive adult behaved more aggressively than control group. 1/3 repeated the models verbal responses in model group, boys imitated more physically aggressive.
- Social Learning Theory
Bandura and Walters
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- If a child see’s another rewarded for aggressive behaviour then they are more likely to repeat it.
Concluded that children had learned the behaviour, but only those who saw it being rewarded were motivated to repeat it - Social Learning Theory
Rehm et al
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Children wearing orange played the game consistently more aggressively than children in their everyday clothes .
- De-individuation
Silke et al
What type of study was this, what did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Meta-analysis
- 206/500 crimes wore a form of disguise
Severity of attack was positively correlated to wearing a mask - De-individuation
Gergen et al
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
-Increase in uninhibited behaviour but not aggressive from being in a dark room
50% hugged each other
- De-individuation
Harer and Steffensmier
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Analysed 58 US prisons, found that black inmates displayed significantly higher levels of violent behaviour compared to white inmates
- Importation model (institutionalization)
Gaes et al
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Hispanics were more violent prisoners than non-Hispanics, inmates of Asian descent were less likely than any other prisoners to engage in serious violent behaviour.
- Importation model (institutionalization)
McCorkle et al
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Found that overcrowding, lack of privacy and lack of meaningful activities in prison all significantly influenced interpersonal violence
- Situational model (Institutionalization)
Light et al
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Found that when overcrowding in prisons increases, so do levels of violence
- Situational model (Institutionalization)
Zimbardo
What study did they complete and what theory of aggression does this give face validity?
- Believed prison environment causes violence and proved this with the Stanford Prison experiment.
- Situational model (Institutionalization)
Regoli
What did they find and whose study does this contradict?
- Found that among juvenile offenders in 4 different institutions, pre-institutional violence was the best predictor of inmate aggression, regardless of the particular features (overcrowding) of the institution.
- Zimbardo’s
Popma
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Found a positive relationship between testosterone and aggression, but only when cortisol levels are low.
- Hormonal (Testosterone)
Charles Whitman
What did these this man do, what was found, and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Shot 16 people on a uni campus.
- Tumour found in amygdala postmortem.
- Biological(?????)
Phineas Gage
What did this man do and what theory of aggression does this support?
- A tamping iron went through his prefrontal cortex
- Personality was said to have changed and he became more aggressive.
- Biological(????)
Davidson
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Found that aggressive individuals had lower levels of serotonin than the control group.
- Neural
Kyes
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Found that vevret monkeys were more aggressive when their serotonin levels were decreased.
- Neural (Neurotransmitter????)
Kouri
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Found that those who had been given testosterone, behaved more aggressively than the control group who had been given a placebo.
- Hormonal
Wagner
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support? What study is also supported by this study.
- Found that the mice who had been castrated and so had lower testosterone levels were less aggressive
- Hormonal
- Kouri
Jacobs
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Found that there were 15:1000 individuals in prison with the XYY chromosome, compared to 1:1000 in the normal population.
- Genetic (Chromosomal)
McGuffin and Gottesman
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Found a concordance rate of 87% in MZ twins for aggressive and anti-social behaviour and 72
5 in DZ twins - aggression could be inherited as they share parents/genes. - Genetic
Hutchins and Mednick
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support? And, what study does this support?
- Found a positive correlation between the number of convictions for criminal violence among the biological parents and the number of convictions for criminal violence among their adopted sons - rules out nurture factors.
- Genetic
- McGuffin and Gottesman
Brunner
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Found a marker on the Y chromosome which was present in all violent men in a Dutch family, but never in the non-violent men.
- Genetic (MAOA)
Buss and Shackleford
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Found men have higher use of intrasexual threat whereas women have higher use of verbal possession signals.
- Evolutionary (Infidelity & Jealousy - Mate retention)
Goete and Shackleford
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Positive correlation between females whose partners had sexually coerced them and them admitting to having been sexually unfaithful.
- Evolutionary (Infidelity & Jealousy - Mate retention)
Cascardi and Vivian
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Found jealousy was the most commonly attributed cause of aggression in a relationship .
- Evolutionary (Sexual Jealousy)
Daly and Wilson
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support? What study does this also support?
- Most killings by men on women were motivated by sexual jealousy - men (24%), women (7.7%).
- Evolutionary (Sexual Jealousy)
- Cascardi and Vivian
Pinker
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this give face validity?
- Stated that during WW2, Germans invading Europe raped women in concentration camps - shows that groups = safer and more powerful.
- Evolutionary (Group - Warfare)
Maxwell and Viseck
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- Found that the rugby players who were more likely to use unsanctioned aggression were those who placed more emphasis on winning the game.
- Evolutionary (Group - Warfare)
Bullock
What did they find and what theory of aggression does this support?
- In the Vietnam war, one of the first actions soldiers undertook in peasant villages was the rape of young women which created a generation of Amerasians in Vietnam
- Evolutionary (Group - Warfare)
