Social Psychology
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Female college students were randomly assigned to watch portions of a physically aggressive film, a relationally aggressive film, or a nonaggressive control film. The results showed that those women who watched the aggressive films were ______ aggressive toward an innocent person than were those who watched the nonaggressive film.
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Female college students were randomly assigned to watch portions of a physically aggressive film, a relationally aggressive film, or a nonaggressive control film. The results showed that those women who watched the aggressive films were ______ aggressive toward an innocent person than were those who watched the nonaggressive film.
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The definition of aggression excludes which of the following?
Unintentional harm
Pain as a result of helping someone
Pain as a result of helping someone
Social psychologists have proposed that aggression is caused by biological influences, frustration, and _____behavior
learned
Docile animals can be provoked into rage, and raging animals into submission, by stimulating the
hypothalamus
Jolie punches Aaron at the bar, but not because she's angry with him. Jolie is just trying to prove that she's "tough" so that everyone watching will be impressed. What kind of aggression is Jolie displaying?
instrumental
______aggression springs from anger with a goal a to injure, whereas_____ aggression aims to injure, but as a means to some other end.
Hostile
Instrumental
Instrumental
Aggressiveness varies among primates and humans, and one physical difference that predicts how aggressive people are is the reactivity of their ______.
sympathetic NS
Distant ancestors thought _____ behavior was a way to deter mates from sexual infidelity.
aggressive
No one spot of the brain controls aggression; however, it has been found that ______ systems in both animals and humans can facilitate aggressive behaviors.
neural
Our temperaments—how intense and reactive we are—are partly brought with us into the world, influenced by our _____ nervous system.
sympathetic
To lower aggression one should eat a diet
high in omega-3.
low in sweetened drinks.
low in trans fat.
low in sweetened drinks.
low in trans fat.
When referring to aggression, testosterone may facilitate dominance and aggressiveness, and dominating behavior may also increase testosterone levels (in other words, the direction goes both ways). Thus, biology and behavior ______.
interact
Road rage is fed by perceptions of hostile intentions from other drivers and is a manifestation of _____ aggression.
frustration
People who have diets deficient in important nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids and calcium may show more ______ when referring to biology and behavior interactions.
impulsiveness
Fans of winning soccer and rugby teams commit _____ post game assaults than do fans of the losing team.
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