Lecture 6

Question 0

All violent behaviour is __________.

Answer 0

Aggressive.

Question 1

What is the difference between aggression and violence?

Answer 1

Aggression - perpetrated or attempted physical or psychological
Harmful. Not always a crime.
Violence - destructive physical aggression.

Question 2

What are the two types of aggression?

Answer 2

• hostile

- instrumental

Question 3

What is hostile aggression?

Answer 3

Goal is to make the victim suffer. Homocides & rapes.

Question 4

What is instrumental aggression?

Answer 4

Competition or desire for object. No intent to ahem unless there is interference. Robbery.

Question 5

What are the personal tendencies towards violence?

Answer 5

• genetic predisposition
• physiological influence
• learning history

Question 6

What are situational tendencies towards violence?

Answer 6

• environmental stress
• cognitive reasoning
• opportunity

Question 7

What is the ethnological theory?

Answer 7

• aggression in animals and humans is inherited

- aggression important for survival and mating

Question 8

What is the frustration aggression theory?

Answer 8

• the existence of frustration always leads to some form of
  aggression.
• aggression is always aimed at the source of frustration.

Question 9

What does aggressive behaviour depend on? (Frustration-aggression hypothesis)

Answer 9

• learning history
• interpretation of an event
• response to frustration
• presence of aggression-eliciting stimuli

Question 10

What are the four steps in the cognitive-neoassociation model?

Answer 10

1. Aversive event
2. Negative effect (discomfort)
3. Unpleasant feeling
4. Cognition mediate the course of action

Question 11

Why is makeup sex so good? And what theory does it support

Answer 11

• excitation transfer theory
• aggression is facilitated by arousal
• if you are aroused and something happens you are more
  Likely to be aggressive.

Question 12

What are three types of models? (In social learning factors)

Answer 12

• family members
• subculture
• symbolic models in mass media

Question 13

What are the two cognitive models of aggression?

Answer 13

1. Cognitive script - social behaviour is controlled by things
   similar to Schemas.
2. Hostile attribution model - those prone to violence are more
   likely to interpret things as hostile
   and threatening.

Question 14

What are the four pieces in the general aggression model?

Answer 14

1. Perception
2. Expectation
3. Knowledge / beliefs
4. Ability to respond effectively.

Question 15

What are the three factors that interrelate to create or reduce aggression? (i3 theory).

Answer 15

• instigating triggers
• impelling forces
• inhibiting forces

Question 16

What are reactive agressions?

Answer 16

• temper tantrums

- vengeful hostility

Question 17

What are proactive agressions?

Answer 17

• bullying
• domination
• teasing
• coercive tactics

Question 18

What are the gender differences in aggression?

Answer 18

Boys - physical aggression

Girls - relational aggression

Question 19

What are some examples of aggression in the media that we are subject to? (Could be a potential risk factor)

Answer 19

• television/ movies
• violent video games
• copycat effect (sees a school shooting on the news or saw dad
  hit mom.)