Exam 10: Aggression and Antisocial Behavior

What do most high school and college students say about cheating?

According to your text, which of the following is NOT a term used to describe violence in the home?

Aggression reduces frustration and also reduces the later tendency to be aggressive.

Describe the evidence that suggests that poor self-control is the primary cause of crime.

As discussed in the text, the Freudian theory of aggression ____.

Suppose Fred discovers that his girlfriend has been having an affair with one of his best friends for over a year. He completely freaks out and starts running through the streets, uncontrollably screaming and randomly attacking people and things. The term used by social psychologists to describe this kind of behavior is ____.

Which scenario is an example of an injunctive norm?

The tendency for people to perceive ambiguous actions by others as evidence of hostility is known as the ____.

About half of all lies are told by _____ of the population, so-called habitual liars.

The textbook defines violence as ____ that ____ extreme harm, such as injury or death.

Social psychologists Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen found that, in the U.S., men from the South tend to respond to insults more aggressively compared to men from the North. They argued that a key reason for the difference is the fact that ____.

As discussed in the text, sexually coercive men (men who commit date rapes or stranger rapes)tend to ____.

The main difference between hostile aggression and instrumental aggression lies in ____.

Is domestic violence a recent phenomenon? Is it on the rise or on the decline?

Briefly explain the differences between antisocial behavior, aggression, and violence, as defined in the textbook. Then explain the distinction between hostile aggression and instrumental aggression, and give an example of each.

Katie is certain that when she quits her job, her boss will take it as a personal insult and be aggressive and rude with her. Katie is exhibiting the ____________________ bias.

Social psychologists define aggression in a very specific way. According to that definition, which of the following is NOT an example of aggression?

According to the text, more than any other emotion, the emotion of ____ is likely to have been at the root of many horrible wars, genocides, and violent attacks throughout history.

Males are more likely than females to engage in the tend and befriend syndrome.

The original formulation of the frustration-aggression hypothesis was based on ____.