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criticisms about how aggression decreased because of the enlightenment

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  • graphs stat at years with peaks.
  • homicide was already decreasing before the enlightenment.
  • homicide fluctuates based on unemployment, so homicide is dependent on societal change.
2
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relationship between aggression and age of population

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if you have more young people, more crimes will be committed.
therefore more crimes in the 40s-60s was happening during the baby boom. we have way less young people now because declining birthrates– could be why we have less crime.

3
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danger of believing we are less violent

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minimizes concerns about present day violence.

4
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key ethnic demographic affected by aggression

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indigenous males are 6-7x at higher risk for homicide.

black peopl;e lose more years of life compared to white people in the states.

5
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Perceptirons of trends in crime

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68% of people believe crime is more than last years

  • false tho, there is lower crime
  • probably attributes to a fear mongering situation.
6
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males tend to be more ___ aggressive, females are more ___ aggressive.

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males tend to be more DIRECTLY aggressive, females are more INDIRECTLY aggressive.

7
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bronfenbrenner model of aggression and its problem.

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how our social circles and social history could influence our aggression (ex/ family, gender, media)

problem: doesn’t include our biology.

8
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biopsychosocial perspective of aggression

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biological: genes, intrauterine environment,
psychological: individual differences, gender, attributions
societal: culture, intergenerational transmission.

9
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T/F there is a strong correlation between spanking and aggression

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false. there are many studies that do have strong correlations, but other studies that do not. Overall, there is not a very strong correlation between spanking and externalizing behaviour in children.

10
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twin studies and aggression

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monozygotic twins have an 87% correlation– if one twin is aggressive, its very likely the other twin will also be aggressive.
- for dizygotic twins, it is lowered.

explanation: MZ twins are treated more similarly and have a similar intrauterine environment.

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T/F: income inequality is correlate with homicide rate

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true:

but confound: its difficult to say if aggression is higher in the south due to culture of honour or if its due to their high rates of income inequality.

12
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relationship between mothers smoking and aggression in their children.

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smoking during pregnancy is correlated with conduct problems.

  • its hard to elucidate whether smoking causes aggression when mothers who smoke also had a bunch of confounding factors like intellectual ability, education etc.
13
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explain the interaction between genetic predisposition and mistreatment and the manifestation of aggression

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people with a genetic predisposition (ex/ Low MAOR) are more aggressive IF environmental factors (ex/ abuse) trigger it.

14
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explain the interaction between gender and context and the manifestation of aggression

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in gorilla studies, females are more aggressive if they are alone with their baby, and less aggressive if they and their baby are with a silverback male.

  • maybe they are less aggressive because they feel more protected.
15
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explain the findings that aggression and homicide is universal

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in a number of countries, it is seen that more males are killed than women.

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T/F young boys tend to be more aggressive than girls

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true

17
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explain how testosterone may be linked to aggression.

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it was seen that if testosterone was given to female rats, they had an increased fighting frequency.

may predispose males to fighting more.

** but other studies show that testosterone barely makes a difference, so idk.

  • in prison inmates, there is more testosterone.
  • findings show that men with more testosterone are more “rambunctious” but overall, the true correlation between testoserone and aggression is weak, it is more dependent on situation.