Exam 12: Aggression: Why Do We Hurt Other People Can We Prevent It

You've just finished reading Chapter 12 on aggression. Your roommate-a chemistry major-is fascinated by all the interesting things you have learned in your social psychology course and asks you, "Well, if anger sometimes leads to aggression, what am I supposed to do?" What would you say to her?

You woke up late and are far behind at work. When you reach the end of your rope, you treat your secretary with hostility and disrespect. This mistreatment causes you to experience dissonance, which you are most likely to reduce by

Given what the text presents about temperature and levels of aggression, during which month would you expect to find the highest rate of violent crime in North America?

All of the following except ________ are likely to help defuse angry feelings in a nonaggressive manner.

Your six-year-old brother has developed some very distressing habits. He has become increasingly aggressive, destroying toys, hitting the neighbors' children, and threatening them with violence to take their toys away. You want to stop your little brother's destructive behavior using punishment. What would be the best way to do this?

According to Pennebaker (1990), talking about our angry feelings and their sources can be physically and psychologically beneficial because

In which of the following situations is frustration least likely to result in aggression?

Explain the nature of the gender differences in aggression in humans.

The idea of venting one's frustrations and anger by aggressing in harmless ways is an oversimplification of ________ theory of catharsis.

Suzanne is a master of relationship aggression. Her tools for being aggressive would include

Based on what your text reports, which of the following conditions of punishment is most likely to deter violent criminals?

Which of the following is out of place?

Research suggests that men are more likely than women to interpret ________ situations as provocative and thus to respond aggressively.

Berkowitz and Le Page (1967) purposely angered the participants. Then they were left in a room with either a gun lying around or a badminton racket. Later, the participants were given the chance to administer electric shocks (not really) to a fellow college student. What was the independent variable of this research?

Based on the evolutionary explanations for aggression presented in your text, who is most likely to be physically aggressive?

Which of the following findings provides the soundest support for the assertion that we learn aggression by observing others and imitating them?

Kevin is told that if he works for five days at a telemarketing job, he can expect to earn $100 a day on commission alone. When he gets his paycheck at the end of the week, it comes to only about $80 per day. He's very upset even when he finds out that his coworkers all made only about $60 each per day. This is an example of

Little Neil is frustrated and is threatening to throttle his baby sister. His mother intervenes, and suggests that Neil "get over it" by taking a dozen eggs and smashing them against the tree in the front yard. Neil's mother appears to be a proponent of ________ as a means of reducing aggression.

The goal of ________ aggression is to inflict pain; the goal of ________ aggression is to achieve some other outcome.

During the seventeenth century, when European fur traders arrived, the Iroquois changed from a peace-loving tribe to fierce enemies of their neighbors, the Hurons. This suggests that