Ch.10: Aggression

Question 1

What is Hostile aggression?

Answer 1

Behavior that stems from anger with the intention to hurt

Question 2

What is Instrumental aggression?

Answer 2

It is behavior with the goal to hurt and obtain something from it.

Question 3

Aggression is different from assertiveness in the sense that?

Answer 3

Aggression’s purpose is to hurt someone

Question 4

What is an example of hostile aggression?

Answer 4

Punching someone at the bar

Question 5

What is an example of instrumental aggression?

Answer 5

Making fun of someone to be liked by the popular kids

Question 6

In the lunchroom at work, after Sally pisses Susie off and then leaves the room. Susie then tells her colleagues “Did you see Sally’s dress? And those shoes? She should watch that show “What Not to Wear.” What type of aggression does this reflect?

Answer 6

hostile aggression

Question 7

A man leaves a bomb on a bus to kill innocent victims in order to persuade a government to yield to his demands. This would be an example of what kind of aggression?

Answer 7

instrumental aggression

Question 8

Hitting, kicking, spitting, and verbal “cuts” are all signs of??

Answer 8

aggression

Question 9

Theories of Aggression

Question 10

What is revised version of frustration aggression?

Answer 10

Aggression cues and anger related to frustrations, lead to aggressive acts.

Question 11

Who was a pioneer in social psychology, demonstrating the effects of observational learning and aggression in children?

Answer 11

Albert Bandura

Question 12

What is relative deprivation?

Answer 12

Comparing your situation to another persons situation b/c you feel as though you are lacking something.

Question 13

What is social learning theory?

Answer 13

Aggression is learned by watching and doing
-We imitate when we observe, remember our experience, reproduce it, and are motivated.

Question 14

When we are stuck in traffic or behind slow people in line at a store, sometimes we feel like we are going to snap. What is the reason?

Answer 14

frustration can facilitate aggression

Question 15

What consists of the rewards of aggression?

Answer 15

Aggressive behavior is rewarded by society

Question 16

Canadian hockey players who have fathers cheering for aggressive plays, can induce the players to be more motivated to aggressive behavior. What does this relate to?

Answer 16

Rewards of aggression

Question 17

What happened in the Bobo Doll exp.?

Answer 17

Kids observed another person acting aggressively toward doll. Placed in a room with desired toys and then told they could not use them. Put in a new room with toys and Bobo doll. More aggression.

Question 18

Which theory of aggression argues that blocking of one’s goals will lead to aggressive behavior because of anger and hostility?

Answer 18

The frustration-aggression theory

Question 19

Jeff’s neighbor yells and screams at him for not picking up the grass trimmings after Jeff mows the lawn. Jeff feels sorry for the man and doesn’t take it personally because he knows the neighbor is having a hard time in his life and the verbal rage reaction could be a sign of _____________ of aggression. Why?

Answer 19

displacement

Because Jeff’s neighbor is angry at him for something that he has nothing to do with

Question 20

Frustration arises from the gap between __________ and __________.

Answer 20

expectations and attainments

Question 21

The social comparison theory would explain the feeling of ___________ that a person might feel.

Answer 21

relative deprivation

Question 22

Influences on Aggression

Question 23

What are 3 aversive experiences?

Answer 23

1. Pain: the more pain one is experiencing, the more violently they attack.
2. Heat: climate fuels aggressiveness
3. Attacks: when someone is attacked, they are more likely to react with aggressiveness.

Question 24

What are some aggression cues?

Answer 24

Aggressive acts occur in watching images/videos of violence

Question 25

When more shocks are given to another person When a gun is present vs. A racket. Are indicators of what?

Answer 25

An aggression cue

Question 26

What does it mean when you go through desensitization?

Answer 26

an emotion-arousing stimulus occurs repeatedly that ppl become numb to it.

Question 27

What is a social script?

Answer 27

Mental instructions guiding one on how to act.

Question 28

What happens when we are aroused, in terms of aggression?

Answer 28

Arousal can be misinterpreted It can be caused by frustrating situations, and influences aggression if it is combined with hostile thoughts and feelings.

Question 29

What is an example of arousal?

Answer 29

owning and being in the presence of guns incites frustrating thoughts/ behaviors.

Question 30

Reducing Aggression

Question 31

What is catharsis?

Answer 31

An emotional release that decreases aggression by acting or fantasizing it. Anger serving to reduce anger happens when a person bottles up their anger and finds an outlet for it.

Question 32

What happened in the catharsis exp:

Answer 32

Participants hit a punching bag while thinking about someone who made them angry and/or thinking about becoming fit. The third group in the experiment did not hit the punching bag, but when given an opportunity to administer loud noises to the person that made them angry—angrier and aggressive expressions occurred

Question 33

In terms of aggression, research on the influence that a group can exert on an individual has shown that

Answer 33

being part of a group can increase aggression

Question 34

What contributed from the Violence Prevention Program?

Answer 34

Collected information from violence protection programs focused on decreasing aggression.