Week 15 Preventing and reducing aggressive behavior lecture 25

Question 1

1. intense
2. prompt (before the person can derive pleasure from the misdeed)
3. applied consistently and with certainty
4. perceived as justified
5. possible to replace the undesirable punished behavior with a desirable alternative behavior

Answer 1

punishment will work if it has these characteristics.

Question 2

• only temporarily suppresses aggression
• it can classically condition children to avoid their parents
• because it is aversive, it can instigate retaliation
• physical punishment in the home leads to increased aggression outside the home
• punishment models the behavior it seeks to prevent

Answer 2

consequences of punishment

Question 3

has the number of people under the death sentence increased or decreased

Answer 3

decreased

Question 4

has the number of people executed in the US from 2000 increased or decreased

Answer 4

decreased

Question 5

is the support for the death penalty at a high or a low

Answer 5

low

Question 6

do majority Americans prefer life sentence or death row

Answer 6

life sentence

Question 7

• the death penalty models the behavior it seeks to prevent
• an innocent person might die
• the death penalty does not deter crime
• the death penalty targets minorities
• the death penalty targets the poor
• the death penalty may constitute cruel and unusual punishment
• the death penalty costs more than life in prison
• the death penalty negatively impacts jurors, justices, governors, executioners, and the families of victims

Answer 7

problems with capital punishment

Question 8

how many people have been exonerated on death row

Answer 8

175
(4.1% of death row inmates are innocent)
(20 of the 1574 people executed since 1976 were innocent)

Question 9

does capital punishment reduce murders

Answer 9

no
(states with death penalty have homicide higher than states without the death penalty)

Question 10

what percent of people on death row are black or minorities

Answer 10

48% = black
55% = minorities

Question 11

• odds of receiving death penalty increase to what when the accused is black
• what percent of elected prosecutors are white

Answer 11

• 38%
• 95%

Question 12

of the 20,000 murders that occur in the US each year, only ___ result in death sentence

Answer 12

1%
( almost all the people and death row were too poor to afford their own attorneys

Question 13

5 methods used to execute people in the US

Answer 13

1. lethal injection
2. electrocution
3. gas chamber
4. firing squad (Utah)
5. hanging

Question 14

a prison generally dies within how long from receiving a lethal injection

Answer 14

7 minutes

Question 15

what death penalty makes it seem like you are suffocating or drowning

Answer 15

lethal injection

Question 16

is the amount of time spent on death row increasing or decreasing

Answer 16

increasing

Question 17

how much more is spent on death penalty per year compared to life in prison per year

Answer 17

12 times
($137 million - $11.5 million)

Question 18

• costs paid by the public
• legal costs
• pre trial costs
• jury selection
• longer trials ( 4 times longer)
• incarceration (solitary confinement)
• appeals

Answer 18

why the death penalty is so expensive

Question 19

• what percent of females and male jurors regretted their decision
• what percent of females jurors and male jurors sought counseling after the trial
• what percent of corrections officers who carry out the executions suffer from PTSD

Answer 19

• 81% female, 18% male
• 63% female, 38% male
• 31%

Question 20

3 theories against physical punishment

Answer 20

1. attachment theory
2. social learning theory
3. coercion theory

Question 21

physical punishment damages a secure attachment in the parent child relationship and can lead to anxiety

Answer 21

attachment theory

Question 22

when parents use physical punishment, it models aggressive behavior for the child

Answer 22

social learning theory

Question 23

physical punishment can lead to coercive parent child interactions, which increase the risk of physical abuse

Answer 23

coercion theory

Question 24

urges the elimination of all forms of physical punishment in all contexts

Answer 24

UN convention on the rights of the child