Social psychology – Aggression Ch 12

Intentional behavior aimed at doing harm or causing pain to another person.

Aggression stemming from feelings of anger and aimed at inflicting pain.

Aggression as a means to some goal other than causing pain.

The instinct towards life, posited by Freud.

According to Freud, an instinctual drive towards death, leading to aggressive actions.

An area in the core of the brain that is associated with aggressive behaviors.

A chemical in the brain that may inhibit aggressive impulses.

A hormone associated with aggression.

The idea that frustration - the perception that you are being prevented from attaining a goal - increases the probability of an aggressive response.

An object that is associated with aggressive responses (e.g. a gun) and whose mere presence can increase the probability of aggression.

The idea that we learn social behavior (e.g., aggression) by observing others and imitating them.

Ways of behaving socially that we learn implicitly from our culture.

The notion that "blowing off steam" - by performing an aggressive act, watching others engage in aggressive behaviors, or engaging in a fantasy of aggression - relieves built-up aggressive energies and hence reduces the likelihood of further aggressive behavior.

Four important features to be aggression: 1) ________ , 2) intentional (not accidental), 3) intent is harm, 4) victim wants to avoid harm.

Four important features to be aggression: 1) ________, 2) intentional harm (not accidental) 3) victim wants to avoid harm.

Four important features to be aggression: 1) a behavior, 2) ________ 3) victim wants to avoid harm.

Four important features to be aggression: 1) a behavior, 2) intentional harm (not accidental) 3) ________.

Behavior intended to harm another person, who is motivated to avoid harm.

"Hot," impulsive angry behavior that is motivated by a desire to harm someone

"Cold," premeditated, calculated harmful behavior that is a means to some practical or material end.

According to most social psychologists, aggression is defined as 1) intent to cause harm and pain in another and then actually do it, 2) inflicting harm and pain in another, 3) intent to relieve frustration by harming another, 4) any action that results in physical or psychological pain in another

Ruth find out boyfriend is cheating on her. What type of aggression would it be when she spreads malicious rumours about him? 1) indirect aggression, 2) assertive aggression, 3) instrumental aggression, 4) feminine aggression

According to social psychologists' definition, aggression which is best example: 1) David is not paying attention and drives over the neighbour's cat, 2) Amanda asserts herself with her boss and successfully argues for a pay rise, 3) Child temper tantrum, 4) Basketball foul

Hostile aggression differs from instrumental aggression in that instrumental aggression 1) often follows from anger or frustration, 2) is more destructive than hostile aggression, 3) more likely to result in retaliation, 4) involves inflicting pain as a means to an end

Which psychology theorist said that we have a death instinct; an unconscious impulse toward self destruction?

Which school of psychology places emphasis on genetic survival rather than survival of the individual in the exercise of aggression? for example, uses genetic survival to account for inhibition of aggression against genetically related others?

There is a strong, *[negative/positive]* correlation between testosterone levels and aggression

Neurotransmitter that appears to restrain impulsive acts of aggression.

*[Low/high]* levels of serotonin are associated with high levels of aggression. Really violent criminals have *[lowest/highest]* levels of serotonin

A reduction of the motive to aggress that is said to result from any imagined, observed, or actual act of aggression. (cleansing, purging)

Aggressing against a substitute target because aggressive acts against the source of the frustration are inhibited by fear or lack of access

Frustration produces anger or annoyance and a readiness to aggress if other things about the situation are conducive to aggressive behavior. If the cause of frustration can be__________, then frustration won't lead to aggression.

Thinking that is based on situational cues, such as the weapons effect and aggression.

Term for the tendency of weapons to increase the likelihood of aggression by their mere presence.

Arousal can be transferred from one source to another; whether It Is transferred depends on the subject's __________

Theory that says we learn from the examples of others, as well as from direct experience with rewards and punishments (Bandura).

After being shoulder-bumped by an oncoming pedestrian, participants in a U of Michigan study who grew up in the south had a significantly higher __________ hormonal response than those who grew up in the north

After being shoulder-bumped by an oncoming pedestrian, participants in a U of Michigan study who grew up in the south rated their masculinity significantly *[lower/higher]* than those who grew up in the north.