Lecture 8 - Aggression

Question 1

instrumental aggression

Answer 1

• to reach a goal

- deliberate and rational

Question 2

emotional aggression

Answer 2

• to hurt
• from anger or hate
• impulsive and irrational

Question 3

verbal aggression + gender

Answer 3

no difference

Question 4

physical aggression + gender

Answer 4

more boys

Question 5

indirect aggression + gender

Answer 5

spreading rumours and gossip

more girls

Question 6

predipositions of aggression

Answer 6

• heritability
• high tesosterone
• low serotonine
• gender
• personality traits e.g. narcisism
• hostile attribbution

Question 7

thanatos

Answer 7

Freud’s death drive

Question 8

Freud’s aggression

Answer 8

to blow of steam

Question 9

Lorent’s aggression

Answer 9

• evolutionary instinct
• flight or fight
• also adaptive

Question 10

is expressing anger healthy?

Answer 10

no, on the contrary

Question 11

Bushman study

Answer 11

• report evaluated
• s could hit a ball
• punished rater more

Question 12

frustration aggression theory

Answer 12

emerges from frustration

can be displaced

Question 13

cognitive-neoassociationist model

Answer 13

Berkowitz
negative affects > fight + anger or flight + fear
thinking as the moderator

Question 14

Schacter Singer study

Answer 14

injected with adrenaline, did not know about its effects

got more angry at annoying person than if theey did know

Question 15

alcohol and aggression

Answer 15

can disinhibit
decreases self-awareness
learned disinhibition
can also be prosocial

Question 16

situational factors for aggression

Answer 16

heat

crowds

Question 17

situational cues

Answer 17

e.g. presence of guns leads to more aggression

Question 18

social roles + aggression

Answer 18

• roles like youth groups or gangs
• injustice
• feeling morally superior
• cultures of honour

Question 19

Cohen study

Answer 19

• s walked down corridor
• bumped by someone
• Southeners got more angry
• more testosterone and cortisol

Question 20

rise of culture of honour

Answer 20

• weak rule of law
• high risk of theft
• e.g. pastoralism

Question 21

Bandura

Answer 21

• observational learning

- learning by wathcing others being rewarded

Question 22

Bandura + gender

Answer 22

• boys baseline is higher

- but both boys and girls learn equally fast

Question 23

longitudunal study Tv violence

Answer 23

• 40 years
• aggreession at 8 did not predict later violence
• violent TV contributed to later violence
• opposite effect on girls
  (?)

Question 24

predictors for rape

Answer 24

• rape myth acceptance

- narcisism

Question 25

when does punishment work?

Answer 25

• directly after act
• reasonable intensity
• consistent and predictable
• spanking does th opposite

Question 26

how to decrease aggression

Answer 26

• teach alternative prosocial behavior
• reward non-aggressive problem solving
• get distraction when angry