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6. In relation to the question where you had to guess who did the study on testosterone, what were the findings in this study?

  • Violent criminals had higher levels of salivary testosterone than non violent criminals
  • Violent criminals had lower levels of salivary testosterone than non-violent criminals
  • Both violent and non-violent criminals had the same levels of salivary testosterone
  • Both violent and non-violent criminals had higher levels of testosterone in their blood stream

7. Whom of the following carried out a study on Testosterone in aggression?

  • Freud (1956)
  • Dabbs et al (1987)
  • Bandura (1960)
  • Archer (1991)

8. To investigate the effects of Dopamine on Aggression, Buitelaar (2003) gave PPs antipsychotics, what did this do?

  • Increased dopamine activity, therefore reducing aggressive behaviour in violent deliquents
  • Reduced dopamine activity, therefore reducing aggressive behaviour in violent deliquents
  • Reduced dopamine activity, therefore increasing aggresive behaviour in violent deliquents
  • Increased dopamine activity, therefore increasing aggressive behaviour in violent deliquents

9. Is Testosterone said to have an influence on aggression?

  • Maybe
  • Yes
  • No
  • Sometimes

10. What is the Challenge hypothesis?

  • The idea that life is a challenge
  • Getting stressed in challenging circumstances
  • The idea that testosterone levels only rise above the base breeding level in response to social challenges. E.g male-male competition
  • The idea that testosterone only raises when stressed