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Question 1 1 / 1 pts In the context of aggression, which of the following statements is true?    Alcohol enhances aggressiveness

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Question 1

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In the context of aggression, which of the following statements is true?

  

Alcohol enhances aggressiveness.

  

A single spot in the brain controls aggression.

   

Aggression is typically caused by brain damage.

   

Twin studies indicate that aggression is never genetic.

 

 

Question 2

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Social psychologists report that viewing fictional scenes of a man overpowering and arousing a woman:

  

create a catharsis experience for men.

   

decrease men's aggression against women.
  

create a climate of fear among women.

 

distort people's perceptions of how women actually respond to sexual coercion.

Question 3

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Displaced aggression is most likely when the target ________ to the instigator.

  

shares no similarity

   

is unrelated

   

shares some similarity

  

is related

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 4

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According to Falkner et al. (2016) and Falkner and Lin (2014), docile animals can be provoked into rage, and raging animals into submission, usually by stimulating ________.

  

the pituitary gland

  

the hypothalamus

   

the cerebellum

   

the corpus callosum

 

 

Question 5

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What can we conclude about the relationship between heat and aggression?

  

Heat suppresses aggression.

   

The correlations between temperature and aggression do not prove a causal relationship.

 

There is no relationship between heat and aggression.

   

Heat directly fuels aggressiveness.

 

 

Question 6

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The redirection of aggression to a safer or more socially acceptable target other than the source of the frustration is referred to as:

  

deprivation

   

projection.

   

displacement.

  

substitution.

 

 

Question 7

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All the following factors are likely to increase aggression EXCEPT:

  

pain.

   

heat.

   

too much sleep.

  

offensive odors.

 

 

Question 8

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In a famous experiment by Albert Bandura and his colleagues (1961), children watched an adult attack a Bobo doll with a mallet. They were then shown some toys that they were forbidden to play with. When they were taken to another room, they:

  

chose to watch a violent rather than a nonviolent film.

   

attacked a Bobo doll.

  

verbally attacked the adult experimenter.

   

began to cry.

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 9

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According to Fay and Maner (2014), heat leads to aggression only after sensitive people ________.

  

are subjected to physical pain

   

fail in their endeavors

  

involve in arguments

   

are socially rejected

 

 

Question 10

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Fourteen-year-old Kevin frequently watches violent television programs. In the context of altered perceptions, this will most likely lead him to:

  

become more fearful than others of being personally assaulted.

  

become more interested than others in resolving the conflict between two of his personal friends.

   

experience more distress than others at the sight of teens fighting on the streets.

   

underestimate the actual frequency of violent crimes in the world.

 

 

Question 11

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________ are culturally provided mental instructions for how to act in various situations.

  

Heuristics

   

Altered perceptions

   

Prosocial behaviors

   

Social scripts

 

Question 12

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In the context of culture change and world violence, which of the following statements is true?

  

Some western democracies still enforce the death penalty for counterfeiting.

   

Across centuries, humans have become increasingly violent.

   

Many western democracies continue to see increases in antigay attitudes.

   

The United States is the only western democracy that has not abolished the death penalty.

 

Question 13

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What percentage of abused children later abuse their own children?

  

10%

   

20%

   

30%

  

40%