Exam 9: Aggression and Antisocial Conduct

Interventions intended to help problem children in coercive home environments are more likely to be successful if

Studies of habitual bullies reveal that these children tend to select _____ victims.

According to Bandura's social learning theory

A speaker claims that one of the strongest laws of human behavior is that males are unquestionably more aggressive than females. How might you challenge this pronouncement as representing a potentially serious overstatement?

Research on the victims of aggression has shown that victims _____ .

Guerra and Slaby (1990) used a social-cognitive training strategy to teach violent adolescent offenders to control their anger, to overcome their hostile attributional biases, and to generate nonaggressive solutions to conflict. They found that the training led to

Berkowitz's revision of the frustration-aggression hypothesis and Dodge's social information-processing theory stress the importance of situational cues in promoting aggressive behavior. While Berkowitz contends that situational cues often _____ aggressive responses, Dodge claims that the effects of these cues depend on _____ .

You are entering a store when a Salvation Army solicitor hits you hard on the head with his bell as he solicits donations. A strict behaviorist such as Arnold Buss (1961) would say that

Recent research on children's out-of-control problem behaviors reveal that _____ is the factor primarily responsible for such conduct.

Dexter takes pride (not to mention gaining resources) in his use of force to convince peers to submit to him. Dexter sounds very much like _____ .

The fact that bullies pick on _____ and have seen aggression pay off for perpetrators at home implies that most bullies qualify as _____ aggressors.

The fact that aggressive, domineering adolescents are often found to have higher androgen and/or testosterone levels than nonaggressive age mates do conclusively establishes that _____ .

Dodge's social information-processing theory of aggression has been criticized for

Carlos is often involved in proactive aggression. His parents and teachers are most likely to reduce the incidence of this proactive aggression if they

A major advantage of the "incompatible response" technique for controlling children's aggression is that

Dana and David are twins. Their father finds that David is an active and occasionally an irritable infant who normally enjoys roughhousing but may become angered if pushed too far. By contrast, Dana is a docile child who would rather play quietly at games like pat-a-cake, so that Dad is less inclined to roughhouse while playing with her. David is more aggressive than Dana. These observations seem most consistent with the _____ view on sex differences in aggression.

Olweus's research on factors influencing aggression has found that the child's temperament is

Scuffles between a pair of children are more likely to be viewed as "aggressive" acts if the youngsters are females rather than males. The _____ definition of aggression best accounts for this finding.

Aggressive acts that are performed for purposes of achieving some objective other than harmdoing are likely to be classified as

Elementary school children show more _____ aggression than preschool children because they are better able than preschoolers to _____.