Social pyschological approaches to explaining aggression

Theories of Aggression

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Social Learning Theory was proposed by?
Bandura
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Social learning theory suggests that aggression is learned through direct and indirect reinforcement, true of false?
True
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In 1961, Bandura, Ross and Ross completed a study using Bobo dolls, what did they find?
Children who saw an aggressive role model were more violent towards the doll and immitated more compared to the other children
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The application of Bandura's Bobo doll study to real life was questioned by which psychologist?
Durkin
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Cumberbatch argued that children were likely to have shown
demand characterstics as Bobo was a popular toy at the time, so those familiar with him would have known what to do.
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What type of homes are likely to produce aggressive children
coercive
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Devindiduation was define by Reber and Reber as:
"Loss of individuality"
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Devindiduation was define by Hogg and Vaughan as:
"Process where people lose their sense of identity and often engage in anti-social behaviour"
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What happens when a person is deinviduated
Their inhibitions are reduced and there is a change in standard behaviour
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Zimbardo's prison study had how many participants
24
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Individual behaviour is rational and it conforms to acceptable standards, who said this?
Zimbardo
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How where the prisoners deinviduated
the guards called them by a number
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how did the guards become deinvituated
uniform
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Both groups became aggressive, true or false?
true
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The participants had to take a test to check their aggression prior to the study, true or false?
True
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why was this done?
So that they can measure if normal people would become aggressive if put into different situations
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Downing also completed a Milgram type study to measure the affects of uniform, what did he find about nurses uniforms?
they were reported to have given the least severe shock
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A study by Mann looked at crowd baiting in 10/21 suicides, what caused the crowd to be deinviduated?
it was dark, this caused them to be deinviduated as they could not be identified
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