PSYO 252 Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
aggression - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-behaviour intended to harm
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another individual
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proactive aggression - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-aggressive behavior
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whereby harm is inflicted as a means to a desired end (also called
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instrumental aggression) |
reactive aggression - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-aggressive behavior where
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the means and the end coincide; harm is inflicted for its own sake
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dark triad - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a set of three traits that are
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associated with higher levels of aggressiveness: Machiavellianism,
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psychopathy, and narcissism | |
executive functioning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the cognitive abilities
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and processes that allow humans to plan or inhibit their actions
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, corporal punishment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-physical punishment
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(such as spanking or hitting) intended to cause a child pain, but not
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injury, for the purpose of controlling or correcting the child's behaviour
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social learning theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the theory that behavior
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is learned through the observation of others as well as through the
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direct experience of rewards and punishments
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cycle of violence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the transmission of domestic
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violence across generations | |
culture of honor - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a culture that emphasizes
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honor and social status, particularly for males, and the role of
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aggression in protecting that honor | | | |
frustration-aggression hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the idea that | | | | | | |
(1) frustration always elicits the motive to aggress and (2) all aggression
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is caused by frustration
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Displacement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-aggressing against a substitute
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target because aggressive acts against the source of the frustration are
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inhibited by fear or lack of access | | | | | |
Correct Answers
aggression - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-behaviour intended to harm
| | | | | | |
another individual
|
proactive aggression - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-aggressive behavior
| | | | | |
whereby harm is inflicted as a means to a desired end (also called
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
instrumental aggression) |
reactive aggression - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-aggressive behavior where
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the means and the end coincide; harm is inflicted for its own sake
| | | | | | | | | | | |
dark triad - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a set of three traits that are
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associated with higher levels of aggressiveness: Machiavellianism,
| | | | | | |
psychopathy, and narcissism | |
executive functioning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the cognitive abilities
| | | | | | |
and processes that allow humans to plan or inhibit their actions
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, corporal punishment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-physical punishment
| | | | | |
(such as spanking or hitting) intended to cause a child pain, but not
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
injury, for the purpose of controlling or correcting the child's behaviour
| | | | | | | | | |
social learning theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the theory that behavior
| | | | | | | | |
is learned through the observation of others as well as through the
| | | | | | | | | | | |
direct experience of rewards and punishments
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cycle of violence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the transmission of domestic
| | | | | | | | |
violence across generations | |
culture of honor - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a culture that emphasizes
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honor and social status, particularly for males, and the role of
| | | | | | | | | | |
aggression in protecting that honor | | | |
frustration-aggression hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the idea that | | | | | | |
(1) frustration always elicits the motive to aggress and (2) all aggression
| | | | | | | | | | | |
is caused by frustration
| | |
Displacement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-aggressing against a substitute
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target because aggressive acts against the source of the frustration are
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inhibited by fear or lack of access | | | | | |
