Chapter 13: Aggression and Conflict

Question 1

aggression

Answer 1

behaviour intended to harm someone else

Question 2

conflict

Answer 2

percieved incompatibility of goals between two or more parties

Question 3

instrumental aggression

Answer 3

aggression serving mastery needs, used as a means to an end, to control other people, or to obtain valuable resources

Question 4

hostile aggression

Answer 4

aggression that is driven by anger due to insult, disrespect, or other threats to self-esteem/ social identity

Question 5

frustration-aggression theory

Answer 5

theory holding that any frustration-defined as the blocking of an important goal-inevitably triggers aggression

Question 6

General Aggression Model

Answer 6

theory that person and situation factors influence people’s cognition, emotions, and arousal, which in turn influence interpretations of the situation and decisions about aggression

Question 7

realistic conflict theory

Answer 7

theory that intergroup hostility arises from competition among groups for scarce but valued resources

Question 8

relative deprivation theory

Answer 8

theory that feelings of discontent arise from the belief that other individuals/ other groups are better off

Question 9

vicarious retribution

Answer 9

members of a group who were not themselves directly harmed by an attack retaliating against members of the offending group

Question 10

coalition formation

Answer 10

occurs when two or more parties pool their resources to obtain a mutual goal they probably could not achieve alone

Question 11

reactive devaluation

Answer 11

perceiving a proposed solution to a conflict negatively simply because the out-group offers it

Question 12

negotiation

Answer 12

process by which parties in conflict communicate and influence each other to reach agreement

Question 13

superordinate goals

Answer 13

shared goals that can be attained only if group work together