Aggression Terms

Question 1

What is aggression?

Answer 1

A range of behaviour that can result in both psychical and psychological harm to others or oneself.

Question 2

What is the Limbic System?

Answer 2

A network of structures located beneath the Cerebral Cortex involved in many of our emotions and motivations.

Question 3

What is the Cingulate Gyrus?

Answer 3

A fold in the brain involved with sensory input concerning emotions and regulation of aggressive behaviour.

Question 4

What is the Hypothalamus?

Answer 4

An important emotional centre, controls molecules that make you feel exhilarated, angry, unhappy.

Question 5

What is the Hippocampus?

Answer 5

A memory indexer that sends memories to the appropriate part of the hemisphere for long-term storage and retrieval.

Question 6

What is the Amygdala?

Answer 6

Involved in emotional responses, hormonal secretions and memory and is responsible for the fear conditioning and the associative learning process.

Question 7

What is Serotonin?

Answer 7

A neurotransmitter that exerts a calming inhibitory effect on neuronal firing in the brain.

Question 8

What is Testosterone?

Answer 8

An androgen responsible for the development of masculine features. Also has a role in regulating social behaviour via its influence of areas of the brain.

Question 9

What is MAOA?

Answer 9

An enzyme that breaks down Serotonin.

Question 10

What is the Warrior Gene?

Answer 10

MAOA-L (low activity of MAOA).

Question 11

What is meant by Ethological Explanations?

Answer 11

The idea some aggressive behaviours are innate.

Question 12

What are Reflexes?

Answer 12

‘wired-in’ responses to specific forms of stimulation.

Question 13

What are FAPs?

Answer 13

(Fixed Action Patterns) Complex behaviours necessary for survival.

Question 14

What is Sexual Jealousy?

Answer 14

The idea that men can never be truly certain about whether or not they fostered a child leading to anti-cuckoldry behaviour.

Question 15

What is Cuckoldry?

Answer 15

When a female partner commits sexual infidelity.

Question 16

What is the Frustration-Aggressive Hypothesis?

Answer 16

Aggression is a consequence of feeling frustrated (Dollard).

Question 17

What is De-individuation?

Answer 17

A psychological state in which an individual loses their personal identity and takes on the identity of a group.

Question 18

What is Private Self-Awareness?

Answer 18

How much we pay attention to our own thoughts and feelings.

Question 19

What is Public Self-Awareness?

Answer 19

How much we pay attention to what a group thinks of our behaviour.

Question 20

What is an Institution?

Answer 20

An organisation or a place of confinement with its own rules and social roles.

Question 21

What is the Importation Model?

Answer 21

The idea that inmates’ willingness to use violence reflects their outside life.

Question 22

What is the Deprivation Model?

Answer 22

The idea that situational factors cause aggression as it is stressful.

Question 23

What is Desensitisation?

Answer 23

The way in which people become less anxious and shocked by media violence.

Question 24

What is Disinhibition?

Answer 24

The idea that watching or playing violent media may change the standard of what is acceptable or not.

Question 25

What is Cognitive Priming?

Answer 25

When violence ‘primes’ us for how to behave in aggressive situations in real life.

Question 26

What is meant by Instrumental Aggression?

Answer 26

A premeditated aggressive action that is carried out in order to achieve a specific goal.

Question 27

What is meant by Hostile Aggression?

Answer 27

Violent attitudes/actions that are associated with anger and a desire to dominate situations or others.