Exam 10: Aggression and Antisocial Behavior

Research indicates that violence is most associated with ____.

Identity theft costs victims about ____ and about ____ of personal time.

When it comes to lying, most people ____.

The tend and befriend syndrome is ____.

Which woman is most at risk for domestic violence?

Which scenario describes aggression, but not violence?

What will always lead(s) to aggression?

Finnegan goes to apply for a car loan, and is shocked when his credit report turns up with a very low rating. As he investigates, he finds out that someone has opened credit cards in his name and with his social security number. This person has charged up huge sums and not paid the balance responsibly. Finnegan has been the victim of ____.

Social psychologists sometimes use the Indonesian term ____________________ to refer to the idea of becoming wildly and uncontrollably violent and destructive, or "going berserk."

In his early writings, Freud proposed that humans have a constructive, life-giving instinct, which he called ____.

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

Alcohol reduces the amount of ____ throughout the brain and body, which reduces the level of energy available for self-control.

As defined by Freud, the term thanatos refers to ____.

Research suggests that males who are under stress respond with the ____________________ syndrome, while females who are under stress respond with the tend and befriend syndrome.

Suppose that Patrick is taking a yoga class in a very hot classroom (with the heater on), while Raphael is taking a yoga class in a relatively cool classroom (with the windows open). Is Patrick more likely to become surly and aggressive after class?

According to ____________________ theory, people learn aggressive behaviors the same way that they learn other types of behaviors-by direct experience and by observing others.

The main difference between the hostile perception bias and the hostile attribution bias is that the former concerns ____ while the latter concerns ____.

Research on detecting lying concludes that ____.

As discussed in your text, the tendency to perceive ambiguous actions by others as evidence of hostility is ____.

Freud proposed that people have a life-giving instinct as well as a "death instinct." He called the latter ____.