Exam 10: Intelligence

In 2003, American and British leaders justified attacking Iraq not as a hostile effort to kill Iraqis but as an act of liberation and of self-defense against presumed weapons of mass destruction. Social psychologists would consider this an example of _____ aggression.

In studies on violence, Eron and Huesmann (1980; 1985) found that 8-year-olds who watched the most violence were

Berkowitz and LePage (1967) found that frustrated men delivered more shocks when

All the following factors are likely to increase aggression EXCEPT

According to the social learning theory, whether we act aggressively depends on

MacDonald and her colleagues (2000) found that intoxicated people administered stronger shocks and felt angrier when thinking about

Physical or verbal behavior intended to cause harm is known as

In contrast to Freud's view of aggression, Lorenz argued that aggression is

Donnerstein (1980) had men watch a neutral, erotic, or aggressive-erotic film. These men were then asked to teach a confederate a list of nonsense syllables by choosing how much shock to administer for incorrect answers. Who delivered the most shock?

It was raining out and Jessie's car had a flat tire. After she managed to fix it, she arrived home late only to find someone had parked in her assigned parking spot. When she entered her apartment, she kicked her pet cat, who was waiting at the door. Jessie's behavior is perhaps most easily explained in terms of

Frustration is noted to arise from

In the context of influences on aggression, which of the following has NOT been linked with aggressive behavior?

A study of brain activity in the prefrontal cortex of murderers found

Which of the following is least likely to cause aggressive behavior?

What percentage of abused children go on to abuse their own children later in life?

"Playing violent video games gives people a harmless opportunity to vent their aggression." This statement is most clearly consistent with the _____ hypothesis.

Mullen (1986) reported that the more people are in a lynch mob, the _____ the murder and mutilation.

Which of the following is an example of aggression?

The blocking of goal-directed behavior is called

Americans' ideas for protecting themselves include all of the following EXCEPT