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Physical or verbal behavior intended to cause harm is known as

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aggression

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_______ aggression springs from anger, and its only goal is to injure.

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hostile

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______ aggression aims to hurt only as a means to some other end.

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instrumental

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The death penalty does not effectively deter homicide. One reason for this is that most murders are the result of

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hostile aggression

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Instinctive behavior is behavior that is

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innate, unlearned, and shown by all members of a species

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Instinct theories of aggression would have the most difficulty accounting for

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wide vacation of aggressiveness from culture to culture

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A study of brain activity in the prefrontal cortex of murderers found

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less activity than normal

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Long-term studies of New Zealand children revealed that

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the interactions of genes and the environment can cause aggressive behavior

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Research on alcohol and aggression has indicated that

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All of the above a) many battering spouses cease their violent behavior when they cease drinking b) people who have been drinking commit more than half of all homicides c) in experiments, intoxicated people administer stronger shocks

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Studies of hormonal influences on aggression indicate that

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after age 25, testosterone and rates of violent crime decrease together

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The blocking of goal-directed behavior is called

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frustration

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The redirection of aggression to a target other than the source of the frustration is referred to as

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displacement

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Frustration is noted to arise from

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the gap between expectations and attainments

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Arthur did not work very hard on his last class essay assignment, so he was relieved at first to find that he had gotten a C. But when he learned that most of his classmates had gotten B's and A's, he felt unhappy and angry about his grade. Arthur's experience is best explained in terms of...?

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the relative deprivation principle

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In a famous experiment by Albert Bandura and his colleagues, children watched an adult attack a Bobo doll with a mallet. They were then shown some toys that they were forbidden to play with. When they were taken to another room, they

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attacked a bobo doll

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In an experiment conducted by Griffitt (1970), students who answered questionnaires while they were _______ reported feeling more tired and aggressive, and expressed more hostility toward a stranger than did participants in a control group.

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in an uncomfortably hot room

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The results of the Schachter and Singer (1962) experiment in which participants were injected with adrenaline prior to spending time with either a hostile or a euphoric person supports the idea that

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odily arousal feeds one emotion or another depending on how we interpret the arousal.

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Research suggests that the sight of a weapon can

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prime aggressive thoughts

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Repeated exposure to fictional scenes of a man overpowering and arousing a woman

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distorted people's perceptions of how women actually respond to sexual coercion.

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As part of therapy, a clinical psychologist encourages her patients to install a punching bag in their homes to release hostility. The therapist apparently believes in

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the catharsis hypothesis

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According to the text, one reason that TV viewing affects behavior is that it

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evokes imitation

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Surveys of adults and adolescents indicate that heavy viewers of TV violence

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...

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Kubey and Csikszentmihaly (2002) reported that compared to active recreation, television watching

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sucks people's energy and dampens their moods

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According to Anderson (2003), playing violent games might have a more toxic effect than watching violent television because

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players play the role of violent character

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Research confirms that groups

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can amplify aggressive tendencies

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The near consensus among social psychologists is that

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viewing or participating in violence fails to produce catharsis

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Myers suggests that one way we could reduce aggression is by

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training parents how to discipline without violence

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Americans' ideas for protecting themselves include all of the following EXCEPT

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don't kill people who kill

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