Chapter 1

Question 1

According to Pinker what is the decline of violence?

Answer 1

fractal phenomenon

Question 2

PInker: 4 explanations why violence has declined.

Answer 2

1. Anarchy (invade your neighbors before they invade you)
2. Life was seen as “cheap”
3. Non-Zero Sum game. “non-violence benefits both parties.”
4. Circle “we now have empathy”

Question 3

What 4 concepts are related to violence and aggression?

Answer 3

1. Elusive 2. Ubiquitious 3. Transforming 4. Thrilling

Question 4

Buss Definition 1961

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Aggression is a response that delivers noxious stimuli to another organism

Question 5

Dollard

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Aggression…is an act whose goal response is injury to an organism

Question 6

What does goal response mean?

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Motivation and striving (intent)

Question 7

Dollard 1939

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Accidents are NOT aggression because there is no goal response.

Question 8

Baron and Richardson

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Aggression in any form of behavior direct towards the goal of harming or injuring another living being who is motivated to avoid such treatment.

Question 9

Cambridge Dictionary Definition of aggression

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Spoken or physical behavior which is threatening or involving harm to someone or something.

Question 10

Aggressive (non-negative)

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Being determined to win or succeed and using strong methods to achieve victory or success.

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Working definiton of aggression

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Aggression is the delivery or an aversive stimulus from one person to another with intent to harm and with an expectation of causing such harm, when the other person is motivated to escape or avoid stimulus.

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Forms of aggression:

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Gossip, Damaging property, social snub

Question 13

**It is customary to classify aggressive behavior into two categories.

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1. affective aggression 2. instrumental aggression

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Affective aggression

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in which harming the victim is the main motive for the action

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Instrumental aggression

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– which may or may not involve strong emotions but it is motivated by concerns more important to the aggressor than harm doing itself.

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Delayed response

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state of impulse, it disposes the person to action, it is often accompanied by bodily arousal. – It can be preoccupation that takes attention away from other matters.

Question 17

Reactive aggression

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aggressive behavior that is enacted in response to provocation, such as attack or an insult its manifested in both self-defense and angry reactions (Crick & Dodge 1996)

Question 18

Proactive aggression

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aggression that is initiated without apparent provocation, not evoked by anger, hostility, or the needs to defend oneself. Motive – Obtaining goods, asserting power, assuming the approval of reference groups and other goals.

Question 19

Lorenz’s definition of aggression

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Behavior triggers by specific external stimuli following a progressive accumulation of aggression specific energy within the person.

Question 20

Three types of research methods

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1. Observation
2. Correlation
3. Experimental

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Outcomes

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Likely hood of aggression being rewarded

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Self-effacy

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If reinforced child also develops a sense of confidence in his or her ability to execute the necessary aggressive behaviors

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Cerebral Cortex

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(important part in aggression as a cognitive processes in relation of provocation and aggression.

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organizing effects

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Influence the bodily development and structure and function of the nervous system in the fetus prior to birth

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Activating effects

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CAN CAUSE CHANGES IN THE MOODS AND behaviors of animals after birth, outcomes that are called

Question 26

A definition of aggression was presented that focuses on three aspects

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namely harmful consequences, intention and expectancy of inflicting harm, and desire by the target person to avoid the harmful treatment.

Question 27

Intention

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inflicting harm on the target,

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Anticipation

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that the action will produce a particular outcome.

Question 29

Baron and Richardson (1994) has three important implications:

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Aggressive behaviour is characterised by its underlying motivation (to harm or injure another living being), not by its consequences (whether or not harm or injury actually occurs). A necessary feature of the intention to harm is the actor’s understanding that the behaviour in question has the potential to cause harm or injury to the target. Defining aggression as behaviour that the target would want to avoid means that actions that may cause harm but which are performed with the target’s consent, such as painful medical treatment, do not represent instances of aggression.

Question 30

Direct aggression

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Direct aggression involves a face-to-face confrontation between the aggressor and the target,

Question 31

Indirect aggression

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aimed at harming other people behind their back by spreading rumours about them or otherwise damaging their peer relationships

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Hostile

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primary motive for aggressive behaviour may be either the desire to harm another person as an expression of negative feelings

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Instrumental

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aim of achieving an intended goal by means of the aggressive act,

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Coersion

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is defined by Tedeschi and Felson (1994, p. 168) as “an action taken with the intention of imposing harm on another person or forcing compliance.”

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Violence

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intention of causing serious harm that involve the use or threat of physical force,

Question 36

physical force

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such as hitting someone over the head, or – in the ultimate form – taking another person’s life.

Question 37

Geen/ Archer definition of violence

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“the infliction of intense force upon persons or property for the purposes of destruction, punishment, or control” (Geen, 1995, p. 669), or as “physically damaging assaults which are not socially legitimised in any way” (Archer & Browne, 1989, p. 11).

Question 38

6 functions of violent behavior

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(1) change of, or escape from, aversive situations; (2) positive reinforcement (i.e., attainment of a particular goal); (3) release of negative affective arousal; (4) resolution of conflict; (5) gaining of respect; and (6) attack on a culturally defined “enemy,” (i.e., a member of a devalued out-group).

Question 39

Structural violence

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is seen as a latent feature of social systems that leads to social inequality and injustice

Question 40

measurement reactivity

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(i.e., people’s tendency to change their usual patterns of behaviour because they are aware that they are under observation).

Question 41

Observational measures in natural contexts mainly come in two forms:

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Naturalistic observation and field experience

Question 42

Naturalistic observation

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which the researcher records behaviour as it unfolds naturally without manipulating the situation in any way,

Question 43

Field experience

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systematic yet unobtrusive manipulation of certain variables to observe the effects of that manipulation on the likelihood of aggressive behaviour.

Question 44

laboratory experiments. In this setting, situations can be created by the investigator to meet three essential criteria:

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1. that respondents are exposed to an experimental manipulation aimed at influencing their aggressive response tendencies 2.that they can be randomly assigned to the experimental and control conditions 3 that many factors which might influence participants’ behaviour over and above the experimental treatment can be controlled.

Question 45

Goal direction

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reactive (hostile) proactive (instrumental)

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response quality

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action vs failure to act

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immediacy

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direct vs indirect

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visibility

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overt vs covert

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instigation

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unprovoked vs retaliative

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Types of damage

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psysical vs psychological

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duration of effects

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trasient vs long term

Question 52

social units involved

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individual vs groups