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1
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Defined as intentional and repeated aggression (bullying, harassing, or
threatening someone) via email, texts, social
networking sites, and other electronic media

A

Cyberbullying

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2
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Physical or verbal behavior intended to
cause harm.

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Aggression

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3
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2 types of aggression

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Physical aggression
Social aggression

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4
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Hurting someone else’s body.

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Physical aggression

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Hurting someone else’s feelings or
threatening their relationships.

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Social aggression

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6
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Social aggression is sometimes called?

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Relational aggression.

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7
Q

Bullying researchers Dan Olweus and Kyrre
Breivik (2013) describe the consequences of
bullying as?

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“the opposite of well-being.”

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8
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Aggression that springs from anger; its goal is to injure.

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Hostile Aggression

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9
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Aggression that aims to injure, but only as a means to some other end.

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Instrumental Aggression

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10
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Contended that aggressive energy will accumulate from within, like water accumulating behind a dam.

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Instinct view

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Primitive death urge

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“death instinct”

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12
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Innate, unlearned, and universal behavior
pattern exhibited by all members of a
species.

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Instinctive behavior

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13
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Acts like an emergency brake on deeper brain areas involved in aggressive behavior

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Prefrontal cortex

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14
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Specific gene linked to aggression; some
even call it the “warrior gene” or the
“violence Gene”.

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MAOA-L

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BIOCHEMICAL INFLUENCES (3)

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Alcohol
Testosterone
Poor diet

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According to the second view, this causes anger and hostility; blocking of goal-directed behavior.

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Frustration

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17
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Theory that frustration triggers a readiness to aggress.

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Frustration-aggression theory

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18
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Redirection of aggression to a target other than the source of the frustration.

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Displacement

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19
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Lacking what others have

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Absolute deprivation

20
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Feeling deprived

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Relative deprivation

21
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Presents aggression as learned behavior.

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Social learning view

22
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Theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded and punished.

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Social learning theory

23
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Example of social learning theory

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The Family
The Culture

24
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AVERSIVE INCIDENTS (5)

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Pain
Heat
Attacks
Arousal
Aggression cues

25
Q

Basic trigger of hostile aggression

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Aversive stimulation

26
Q

Intense mental distress, suffering, or emotion
that is the result of unpleasant thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN

27
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People tend to respond with increased aggression in response to aggression.

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“an eye for an eye” response

28
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When a weapon is perceived as an instrument of violence rather than a recreational item.

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Aggression Cues

29
Q

Idea that some women would welcome sexual assault and that “no doesn’t really mean no”.

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RAPE MYTH

30
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MEDIA INFLUENCES (2)

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Pornography and Sexual Violence
Television and the Internet

31
Q

Media consumption has been shown to
influence behavior in three (3) ways:

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Arousal
Disinhibition
Imitation

32
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Positive, constructive, helpful social behavior; the opposite of antisocial behavior.

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Prosocial Behavior

33
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Media’s Effects on Thinking (4)

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Desensitization
Social Scripts
Altered Perceptions
Cognitive Priming

34
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Repeat an emotion-arousing stimulus, and the emotional response will “extinguish.”

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Desensitization

35
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Culturally provided mental instructions for how to act in various situations.

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Social Scripts

36
Q

For those who watch much television, the world becomes a scary place; media
portrayals shape perceptions of reality.

A

Altered Perceptions

37
Q

Watching violent programs can lead to an
increase in aggression-related thought patterns, which in turn can influence individuals’ behavior.

A

Cognitive Priming

38
Q

Give 2 effects of Video Games:

A

1.Increases in aggressive behaviors
2.Increases in aggressive thoughts

39
Q

Aggressive drive is reduced when one “releases” aggressive energy, either by acting aggressively or by fantasizing aggression.

A

Catharsis Hypothesis

40
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Psychological phenomenon in which people are less likely to take action when in the presence of a large group of people.

A

DIFFUSION OF RESPONSIBILITY

41
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Psychological phenomenon in which beliefs, attitudes, and decisions of groups tend to be more amplified or more extreme than those held by individuals.

A

GROUP POLARIZATION

42
Q

Spread of emotions or behaviors from one
individual to another, sometimes without awareness.

A

SOCIAL CONTAGION

43
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Tendency of the people in a group to think and behave in ways that conform with
others in the group rather than as
individuals.

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HERD MENTALITY

44
Q

If aggressive behavior is learned, then there
is hope for its control.

A

SOCIAL LEARNING APPROACH

45
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It is wise to refrain from planting false, unreachable expectations in people’s minds.

A

Reducing aversive stimulation

46
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We should reward cooperative, nonaggressive behavior.

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Rewarding and modeling nonaggression

47
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Refers to a change in beliefs, values, methods, processes and systems, which can lead to changes in individual behavior.

A

Culture Change

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