week 9 aggression (social psychology)

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What was the initial major theory of aggression in social psychology
Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
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Whom came up with the frustration aggression hypothesis?
Dollard et al 1939
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What are the significant flaws of the frustration aggression hypothesis?
Loose definition of frustration and difficulty predicting kinds of frustration.
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What was Bandura's key definition of aggression?
'Behaviour resulting in personal injury or destruction of property'.
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What was Scherer et al key definition of aggression?
'Behaviour intended to harm another of the same species'
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How has operationalising aggression been attempted?
Analogues, Signal of intention, Self ratings, Ratings by others, ect.
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What is psychodynamics approach to aggression?
Human aggression stems from innate thanatos because there is an instinct drive.
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What is Thanatos (in relation to aggression)?
Death instinct: self destructive behaviour and the readiness to act outwards to other people.
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What was the social approach, investigated by Cooper and Smith?
Certain characteristics make an individual more susceptible to crime or as a victim.
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Who did Cooper and Smith analyse for aggravated assault by sex?
US Juvenile arrest rates
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What is a significant theory of social psychology?
Social Learning Theory
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How did Bandura apply Social Learning Theory to Aggression?
He believed a susceptible person linked to reward and punishment.
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An issue of aggression is spanking children, how did Straws investigate this?
In a longitudinal study (2 years), of how often a child was spanked.
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What result did Straws find when investigated aggression and spanking children?
A positive relationship between spanking and antisocial behaviour of the child.
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In studies by Anderson, what has been found about violent lyrics and aggression?
Violent lyrics triggered aggressive associations in words with previous ambiguous meaning.
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In studies on heat frustration, what results did Cohn and Rotton find?
As the temperature increases, so does the assault rates.
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As revealed by Black and Beans aggression questionnaire, What may people who attend screenings of violent films generally be more disposed to?
Aggression
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What did Black and Beans study on violent films and aggression reveal?
That viewing a violent film has an additional effect, because aggression scores increased.
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What did Begue et al find about alcohol and aggression in his placebo study?
Students acted more aggressively, the more they thought they'd consumed.
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What are the social problems of aggression on a bigger scale?
Collective aggression and Wars / Massacres
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What did Mann find when analysing 21 cases of suicide?
10 of these had a crowd watching where baiting had occurred.
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What did Mann find about when baiting was most likely to occur?
At night, larger crowd (300+) and larger distance from victim.
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What did Mann conclude that baiting occurred in relation to suicide?
Deindividuation and due to a long wait which built up irritability and frustration.
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