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PSYCH 340 Homework 10 | Questions with Verified Answers Most social psychologists define aggression as any behavior intended to harm another person who is motivated to avoid the harm Social psychologists define aggression in a very specific way. According to that definition, which of the followi...

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Most social psychologists define aggression as
any behavior intended to harm another person who is motivated to avoid the harm

Social psychologists define aggression in a very specific way. According to that
definition, which of the following is an example of aggression?
A child calling her older brother cruel and hurtful names

Maureen is really frustrated that the contractor working on her house is taking so long.
But she doesn't want to yell at him because she is worried he will not produce quality
work for her if she does. Instead, she yells and snipes at her husband. Maureen's
aggression is
Displaced

Thad is angry at his football coach for making him sit out the next game. Thad talks
about his coach behind the coach's back to the other players. Thad is displaying ____
aggression
Indirect

Another term for instrumental aggression is
proactive aggression

The main difference between hostile aggression and instrumental aggression lies in
the motive(s) of the aggressor

Which scenario illustrates instrumental aggression?
Rachel pushes Ted so that she can rush past him to catch a glass that is about to fall off
the counter.

Which situation is an example of hostile aggression?
Mr. Y intentionally humiliates an annoying co-worker.

According to the definitions of aggression and violence used in the text, which
statement is true?
Not all aggressive acts are violent, but all violent acts are aggressive.

At the most general level, the term antisocial behavior refers to
behavior that damages interpersonal relationships or is culturally undesirable

Which example is least indicative of antisocial behavior?
boxing in a professional boxing match

, Which scenario describes aggression, but not violence?
Gracie, who shoves a child who is taking too long to get a drink, causing the child to
bump into the drinking fountain and split her lip

Persistent aggression by a perpetrator against a victim for the purpose of establishing a
power relationship over the victim is called
Bullying

According to ____, people learn to behave aggressively in the same way that they learn
other things—by direct experience and by observing others.
social learning theory

Research suggests that people often learn to behave in particular ways based on
modeling (observing and copying others' behaviors). Which statement best describes
how aggressive and nonaggressive models work?
Aggressive models can increase aggressive behavior and nonaggressive models can
decrease it.

Research on social learning theory and aggression suggests that aggressive models
can influence people to behave more aggressively
regardless of whether the model is live or filmed, and regardless of whether the model's

What does the text conclude about the human "instinct" for aggression?
Humans do seem to have an instinct for aggression, but, in general, culture tends to
curb that instinct and reduce aggression.

The proposal that "the occurrence of aggressive behavior always presupposes the
existence of frustration [and] the existence of frustration always leads to some form of
aggression" is known as
the frustration-aggression hypothesis

What do most experts today say about the frustration-aggression hypothesis?
Most agree that frustration and aggression are strongly linked, but most disagree with
the idea that one always involves the other.

Jayson is walking down a busy sidewalk, when someone going the opposite direction
bumps into him. Jayson thinks the person meant to bump him to be rude. Jayson is
most clearly exhibiting the
hostile attribution bias

The main difference between the hostile perception bias and the hostile attribution bias
is that the former concerns ____ while the latter concerns
events external to you as well as events that occur to you; just events that occur to you

Roger overhears loud voices in the apartment next door, and immediately assumes that
his neighbors are engaged in a domestic battle. He then talks on the phone with his

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