Exam 9: Aggression and Antisocial Conduct

The "social judgment" perspective on aggression

One day at school, Josh gets up real quick from the table and spills paint all over Frank's art project. Frank thinks to himself, "I'll teach that little creep to be more careful" and he consciously plans an aggressive means of getting back at Josh for his carelessness. From the perspective of Dodge's social information-processing theory of aggression, Frank would be classified as

A recent longitudinal study of 2,600 Dutch children (Bongers et al., 2004) supports the proposition that sex differences in aggression and oppositional conduct

A clear strength of Dodge's social information-processing theory of aggression is _____ .

Briefly indicate what we know about social-class differences in aggression and violence. Describe the factors that developmentalists cite to account for these differences.

Recent neuroimaging studies are consistent with Bandura's view that ____, showing that successful aggression activates pleasure centers in the brain.

One effective way of remediating the antisocial conduct of adolescents is to

Recent interventions designed to reduce the incidence of aggression and violence at school appear to be more effective when they _____ .

The increase in conflicts that infants display after their first birthday is thought by some developmentalists to reflect _____.

Your goal is to create play environments that will minimize the likelihood of interpersonal aggression among nursery schoolers. You are more likely to be successful were you to

In Patterson's coercion model of delinquency, coercive parenting is said to promote _____ , which, in turn, contribute(s) directly to _____ .

According to Dodge's social information-processing theory of aggression, children progress through six cognitive "steps" or processes when deciding how they might react to frustration, anger, or an apparent provocation. The sequencing of these cognitive processes is

Studies of sex differences in aggression reveal that

Chronic victims are most likely to continue to be victimized over time when they

Bandura's contention that virtually all highly aggressive children are aggressive because they value aggression as an effective instrumental strategy for attaining other objectives does not easily explain the behavior of

Which of the following conclusions does cross-cultural research on aggression support? The level of aggression

Ethologists such as Lorenz would agree with Freud that _____ .

The results of longitudinal studies suggest that

Dodge believes that reactive aggressors are apt to remain highly aggressive because

Patterson's coercion theory specifies that being rejected by peers is one important step along the road to chronic delinquency--one that is likely to