Question 1

Give an example of active, verbal aggressive behaviors.

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Spreading malicious rumors
- Insulting someone
- Derogating someone

Question 2

Why does alcohol consumption lead to more aggression?

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Alcohol myopia
- Inhibition of conflicting thoughts
- Undermined ability to process conflicting responses leading to more extreme behaviors

Question 3

How do social psychologists interpret the fact that the presence of a gun provokes aggression?

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Cultural learning imbues certain objects with aggressive association
- Weapons effect: weapons cue aggressive behaviors

Question 4

Is it effective to use violence in advertisements? Why?

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Question 5

What is meant by the phenomenon of excitation transfer?

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Question 6

What have studies involving alcohol placebo shown about the link between alcohol and aggression?

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Question 7

Why do laboratory experiments investigating aggression use procedures in which people think they are harming another person when actually they are not?

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Question 8

Would hitting someone in order to prevent him/her from putting his/her life at risk be considered an act of aggression? Why?

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Question 9

Give an example of an unethical study of aggression.

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Question 10

What is the conceptual definition of aggression?

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Question 11

What kind of aggression is not a response to a perceived threat?

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Question 12

According to Nisbett (1993), in the United States, why do the south and some parts of the west have higher homicide rates than the north and east?

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Question 13

What is the difference between instrumental and hostile aggression?

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Question 14

Is the catharsis hypothesis supported by research on aggression?

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Question 15

What is the hypothesis that competes with the excitation transfer hypothesis?

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Question 16

What is the catharsis hypothesis?*

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Question 17

What factors lead to an increase of the weapons effect?

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Question 18

Besides aggression, what other behaviors does alcohol consumption promote?

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Question 19

Why do higher temperatures lead to an increase of aggression?

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Question 20

Give examples of active, direct, physical aggressive behaviors.

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Exam 10: Aggression: Antisocial Behavior