Exam 9: Aggression: Hurting Others

Which of the following has been found to be an effect of modelling sexual violence in movies and television?

Research by the National Television Violence Survey found that ___________ programs contained physically compelling action that threatens to hurt or kill, or actual hurting or killing.

Imagine that you've just finished vacuuming when your young daughter races through the house into the bathroom with her muddy shoes still on her feet. According to the revised version of the frustration-aggression theory, in which situation would you be the least angry at your daughter?

Research in the laboratory and in real life suggests that pain, personal attacks, and overcrowding are _______ experiences that _______ the likelihood of aggression.

Arvid didn't work very hard on his last class essay assignment, so he was relieved at first to find he'd gotten a C on it. But when he learned that most of his classmates had gotten Bs and As, he felt unhappy and angry about his grade. Arvid's experience is best explained in terms of

According to cross-cultural research, __________ attacks breed __________ attacks.

Hostile aggression is defined as aggression that is a means to some other end.

Sigmund Freud argued that aggression ultimately springs from

When your expectations are fulfilled by your attainments, you feel ___________.

Research suggests that catharsis neither occurs nor effectively reduces aggression, yet the notion of catharsis and its therapeutic effects is widely believed. Why?

Instinctive behaviour is behaviour that is

Research suggests that the sight of a weapon can

The perception that one is less well off than others to whom one compares oneself is referred to as

Studies of hormonal influences on aggression indicate that

According to social-learning theory, aversive experiences lead directly to

Which of the following is not an example of aggression?

Viewing sexually violent movies _____________ men to brutality and results in _____________ for rape victims.

According to research,

The social learning approach suggests that to reduce aggression we should

In a famous experiment by Albert Bandura and colleagues, children watched an adult attack a Bobo doll with a mallet. They were then shown some attractive toys they were forbidden to play with. When they were taken to another room, they