Exam 9: Aggression and Antisocial Conduct

Child rearing studies on the socialization of aggression suggest that rejecting parents who permit and encourage their children to express their impulses often have youngsters who are

A mugger who attacks a victim in order to obtain the victim's money is engaging in

Five-year-old Lennie snatches his sister's toy and makes her cry. Lennie's mother responds by saying sternly "Off to your room, young man, and stay there until you can stop bullying your sister and can keep you hands off her playthings." Lennie's mother is relying on the _____ to control his aggressive antics.

Berkowitz's revised frustration-aggression hypothesis views aggressive behavior as stemming from a combination of

Early conflicts among 2-year-olds over toys

Physical aggression

Jorge is sometimes physically abused by a parent and is often pushed around by his three older siblings. Given his home environment becoming

A clear majority of aggressive acts that occur in children's peer groups

Sigmund Freud believed that aggression was best described as

Throughout childhood, Geraldo was no more or less aggressive than his peers. After a change in residence following his parents' divorce, he fell in with the wrong adolescent crowd, began to fight and to partake in mischevious antisocial conduct, which continued until he enlisted in the army at age 18. Geraldo displays a _____ trajectory for aggression.

Children who display the hostile attributional bias are at risk of becoming

Over the preschool period (ages 3 to 6)