Exam 12: Aggression: Why Do We Hurt Other People

____ is to neural cause of aggression as ____ is to chemical cause.

Social-psychological research has revealed that exposure to televised violence might weaken viewers' inhibitions about using violence in their own lives.If Peter is one such person,what is he likely to think when he watches a violent cops and robbers show?

Your six-year-old brother has developed some very distressing habits.He has become increasingly aggressive,destroying toys,hitting the neighbors' children,and threatening them with violence to take their toys away.You want to stop your little brother's destructive behavior using punishment.What would be the best way to do this?

Dane Archer and Rosemary Gartner (1976,1984)found in a cross-cultural study of war and domestic violence that being at war is correlated with increased domestic homicide rates.All of the following reasons except ____ contribute to this increase,according to social-psychological analyses.

Dan Olweus (1991)was able to curtail bullying in a Norwegian school system by training administrators and teachers to be vigilant and to make timely and reasonable interventions.The levels of punishment found to be effective in these studies are fairly mild,consistent with the principles of

Recall that Phillippe Leyens and his colleagues (1975,1977)exposed different groups of children to a steady diet of violent films over a relatively long period.These researchers found that

____ is to instinct toward life as ____ is to instinct toward death.

You are about to leave on vacation and your brother is driving you to the airport.Unfortunately,you get to the airport too late and you find out that your flight has already left.Under which of the following conditions are you most likely to feel aggressive toward your brother and want to scream at him?

After the Americans dropped nuclear bombs on Japan in World War II,many Americans felt more violence should have been used,and many Americans derogated the Japanese.This can be explained by the phenomenon discussed by your text,

Explain the role of social conditions in changing the Iroquois tribe from peaceable people to fierce warriors.

According to the authors,when we are angry,it is best to

Your textbook reports that during World War II,after America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,fewer than 5 percent of Americans polled felt that we should not have used the weapons,and 23 percent felt we should have used even more such bombs.All of the following except ____ most likely contributed to American's harsh attitude towards doing harm to Japanese civilians.

What,according to the social-psychological point of view,is inherited about aggression?

Roger Barker,Tamara Dembo,and Kurt Lewin (1941)frustrated some children in a study by making them view attractive toys that were kept out of their reach.When they did allow the children to play with the toys,they found that these frustrated children were more likely to

Recall that Joel Davitz (1952)first frustrated children by stopping a great movie and taking away their candy,and then observed the children during free play.He found that children ____ were ____ aggressive than the others.

Social-psychological research has revealed that viewers of a great deal of television come to view the world as a dangerous and hostile place.If Terry is one such person,what is he likely to think when he watches a violent cops and robbers show?

How does female-dominated society lead bonobos to deal with conflict?

Hostile aggression differs from instrumental aggression in that instrumental aggression

The Pygmies of Central Africa and the Arapesh of New Guinea live in peace and harmony,while European history consists of one war after the other.Formerly peace-loving,the Iroquois became a fierce and aggressive Native American tribe in the seventeenth century.These examples illustrate that

____ aggression is an act that stems from feelings of anger,and that is aimed at inflicting pain.