Question 1

What is the TASS model? How does the model talk about aggressive reactions? In an experiment,participants either high or low in trait aggressiveness were given either low,or high provocations? Describe the results.

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Question 2

Briefly describe the excitation transfer theory of aggression.

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Question 3

While aggression may in certain circumstances be appropriate perhaps in a competitive situation),we generally cannot be lashing out at others in most social situations.What is the name of the mechanism for curbing aggressive tendencies? What resource must we typically draw on to curb those tendencies? Describe the "donut" study used to test this hypothesis?

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Question 4

From MyPsychLab WATCH: "Archival Footage of the Bandura Study"
To access this asset go to MyPsychLab and click on "Course Documents." Under the heading "Index of Multimedia," click on the "here" link.Select Chapter 10,Aggression: Its Nature,Causes,and Control,and click on "Find Now." For the Chapter 10 items,click on the "Watch" item called "Archival Footage of the Bandura Study.")
The video shows actual footage of the Bobo Doll study mentioned in the chapter.What is the basic point of the study? The moderator mentions that,"aggression is hardly cathartic," that the children,"picked up the novel hostile language," and that noted that children used a gun,although there was,"no gun modeled" by the adult).What are the implications of these statements?

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Question 5

Song lyrics with sexually aggressive themes pervade the culture. Briefly describe the experiment involving participants listening to either
1) no sexually aggressive song lyrics,
2) misogynistic lyrics, or
3) men-hating lyrics.
How did participants express aggression? Describe the results (they were shown in a figure). What do the results imply about the effects of long-term exposure to those lyrics?

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Question 6

,i.e.,venting our feelings of pent-up frustration in a safe manner,generally does not help reduce inappropriate aggressive behavior.

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Question 7

Presumably,watching violent video games induces desensitization to violent imagery.What does desensitization mean? How was a neuroscientific approach used to study this desensitization? What may one reasonably infer from these data?

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Question 8

Do evolutionary factors play a large role in aggression? What was Freud's theory about violence? What does more recent research say about a likely evolutionary role for violence? But what does Hawley's research say about this?

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Question 9

Despite media reports that heighten the sense that it happens often,the odds of being killed are very small.

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Question 10

Describe the effects that exposure to violent pornography may have on people.

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Question 11

Explain what is meant by the Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis.What are the two main beliefs about frustration and about aggression)that characterize the hypothesis? Then,what does more modern research say about these two conceptual building blocks of the hypothesis? I.e.,in what ways are they either not true,or are more complex than once thought?

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Quiz 10: Aggression: Its Nature,causes,and Control