Deck 26: A: Reading

Question 1

Which of the following was not one of the six predictor variables that Malamuth used in his study of self-reported naturalistic sexual aggression?

A) heterosexual experience
B) exposure to media violence
C) hostility toward women
D) antisocial personality characteristics

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In discussing the implications of his findings on the occurrence of naturalistic sexual aggression, Malamuth argues that his results lend support to other research on:

A) how media depictions of violence may change persons' attitudes in such a way that actual aggressive behavior occurs.
B) how increasing prison sentences for rapists may actually lead them to commit more acts of violence, both while they are in prison and once they are released.
C) how research on sexual aggression should continue to search for single, primary factors that predict when sexual aggression will occur.
D) how rapists develop rationales and justifications for their acts.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Malamuth notes that in his research program on sexual aggression, he has employed two types of aggression measures-a laboratory measure and a naturalistic measure-which have opposite advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of the laboratory measure of aggression is that:

A) it is a self-report measure and, therefore, is immune to errors occurring from social desirability pressures.
B) it assesses behavior in a setting that is high in ecological validity.
C) almost all previous research has used it, so it allows for comparisons among studies.
D) it is an objective measure that does not rely on subjects' self-reports.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Malamuth, in his study on sexual aggression, found that his ability to explain the variance in participants' sexual aggression scores almost doubled (from .38 to .75) when:

A) he dropped the tumescence rape index from his analysis of predictors.
B) he included the non-volunteers in his analysis.
C) he included the interactions between the predictor variables in his analysis.
D) sexual dominance scores were taken into account as a predictor score.

Question 5

Malamuth's findings on the predictors of naturalistic sexual aggression demonstrate that:

A) all of the predictor variables he identified were significantly related to naturalistic sexual aggression.
B) the primary causal factor in naturalistic sexual aggression is psychoticism-that is, having an antisocial personality.
C) the Additive model of combining predictors was superior to the Interactive model in accounting for the occurrence of naturalistic sexual aggression.
D) the presence of one predictor variable was less likely to lead to sexual aggression than the presence of multiple predictor variables.