Week 10 - Aggression

Question 1

Corporal punishment

Answer 1

Physical force, such as spanking or hitting, intended to cause a child pain, but not injury, for the purpose of controlling or correcting the child’s behaviour.

Question 2

Dark triad

Answer 2

A set of three traits that are associated with higher levels of aggressiveness: Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism.

Question 3

Proactive aggression

Answer 3

Aggressive behaviour whereby harm is inflicted as a means to a desired end (also called instrumental aggression).

Question 4

Reactive aggression

Answer 4

Aggressive behaviour where the means and the end coincide; harm is inflicted for its own sake.

Question 5

Social learning theory

Answer 5

The theory that behaviour is learned through the observation of others as well as through the direct experience of rewards and punishments

Question 6

Cycle of violence

Answer 6

The transmission of domestic violence across generations.

Question 7

Frustration–aggression hypothesis

Answer 7

The idea that frustration always elicits the motive to aggress, and that all aggression is caused by frustration.

Question 8

Catharsis

Answer 8

A reduction of the motive to aggress that is said to result from any imagined, observed or actual act of aggression.

Question 9

Weapons effect

Answer 9

The tendency that the likelihood of aggression will increase by the mere presence of weapons.

Question 10

Hostile attribution bias

Answer 10

The tendency to perceive hostile intent in others.

Question 11

Rumination In the context of aggression

Answer 11

repeatedly thinking about and reliving an anger-inducing event, focusing on angry thoughts and feelings, and perhaps even planning or imagining revenge.

Question 12

Desensitisation

Answer 12

Reduction in emotion-related physiological reactivity in response to a stimulus.

Question 13

Cultivation

Answer 13

The process by which the mass media (particularly television) construct a version of social reality for the public