PSY 3331 Practice Exam 4 Questions
And All Correct Answers.
Which of the following is an example of aggression? - Answer A girl calling her little sister
"stupid"
T/F: Nearly all organisms seem to have evolved strong inhibitory mechanisms that enable them
to suppress aggression when it is in their best interest to do so - Answer True
Cross-cultural studies on human aggression have found that human cultures __________ in
their degree of aggressiveness - Answer Vary widely
Which of the following people is most likely to behave aggressively in response to an insult -
Answer Hank, who is from the South
In one study, teenagers from 11 different countries read stories involving conflict among people
and were asked to write their own endings. In _______ of the 11 countries, young men show a
greater tendency toward violent solutions to conflict than young women did. - Answer Every
one
In a cross-cultural study by Archer & McDaniel (1995), women from________ showed greater
evidence of aggressiveness - Answer Australia
T/F: Chimps are often referred to as a "make love, not war" animal - Answer False
T/F: In Phoenix, Arizona, drivers in non-air-conditioned cars are less likely to honk their horns in
traffic jams than drivers in air-conditioned cars - Answer False
In a 1991 movie called Fried Green Tomatoes, a character named Evelyn Couch has found a
parking space at a busy grocery store. Evelyn puts her turn signal on and prepares to pull into
the space into the space when two young women in a small car quickly pull into the space
before her. Evelyn yells at the young women and explains that she was about to pull into the
space. They reply "face it lady, we are younger and faster." After the young women enter the
grocery store, Evelyn proceeds to repeatedly run her car into their car. Can Evelyn's behavior be
explained by the frustration-aggression theory? - Answer Yes, because not getting the parking
space frustrated her and led to her aggressive behavior
, Brad Bushman and colleagues explored the impact of religiously sanctioned stories of violence
and aggression. They found that the reader of a violent story was more likely to behave
aggressively after reading it when story was: - Answer Attributed to the Bible, and in the story
God sanctioned the violence
T/F: Children do not usually copy the aggressive behavior of their parents - Answer False
T/F: Longitudinal research finds that the more violence children watch on TV, the more violence
they exhibit later as teenagers and adults - Answer True
The text mentions that several years ago a man drove his truck through the window of a
crowded cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, and then emerged from the cab and began shooting people
at random. By the time the police arrived he had killed 22 people. What preceded this man's
shooting spree? - Answer Based on a ticket stub in his wallet, it can be assumed that he had
recently watched The Fisher King, a film depicting a deranged man firing a shotgun into a
crowded bar, killing several people
T/F: Studies have found that simply viewing television violence cannot numb people's reactions
to violence when they face real-life aggression - Answer False
If you are advertising a product on television and you want viewers to remember your ad, you
should advertise during a show that is - Answer Non-violent and non-sexually explicit
_______ are ways of behaving socially that we learn implicitly from culture - Answer Scripts
In a meta-analysis by Allen et al. (1995) it was found that the exposure to violent pornographic
material produced ________ in their hostility and aggressiveness toward women - Answer An
increase
Olweus studied bullying and a bullying intervention program in Norway. He found that 20
months after the program began, bullying had decreased by - Answer One half
According to your text, two teenagers in Tennessee took their guns and went out sniping at
passing cars on a freeway, killing one driver, because they - Answer Wanted to act out their
favorite video game, Grand Theft Auto
And All Correct Answers.
Which of the following is an example of aggression? - Answer A girl calling her little sister
"stupid"
T/F: Nearly all organisms seem to have evolved strong inhibitory mechanisms that enable them
to suppress aggression when it is in their best interest to do so - Answer True
Cross-cultural studies on human aggression have found that human cultures __________ in
their degree of aggressiveness - Answer Vary widely
Which of the following people is most likely to behave aggressively in response to an insult -
Answer Hank, who is from the South
In one study, teenagers from 11 different countries read stories involving conflict among people
and were asked to write their own endings. In _______ of the 11 countries, young men show a
greater tendency toward violent solutions to conflict than young women did. - Answer Every
one
In a cross-cultural study by Archer & McDaniel (1995), women from________ showed greater
evidence of aggressiveness - Answer Australia
T/F: Chimps are often referred to as a "make love, not war" animal - Answer False
T/F: In Phoenix, Arizona, drivers in non-air-conditioned cars are less likely to honk their horns in
traffic jams than drivers in air-conditioned cars - Answer False
In a 1991 movie called Fried Green Tomatoes, a character named Evelyn Couch has found a
parking space at a busy grocery store. Evelyn puts her turn signal on and prepares to pull into
the space into the space when two young women in a small car quickly pull into the space
before her. Evelyn yells at the young women and explains that she was about to pull into the
space. They reply "face it lady, we are younger and faster." After the young women enter the
grocery store, Evelyn proceeds to repeatedly run her car into their car. Can Evelyn's behavior be
explained by the frustration-aggression theory? - Answer Yes, because not getting the parking
space frustrated her and led to her aggressive behavior
, Brad Bushman and colleagues explored the impact of religiously sanctioned stories of violence
and aggression. They found that the reader of a violent story was more likely to behave
aggressively after reading it when story was: - Answer Attributed to the Bible, and in the story
God sanctioned the violence
T/F: Children do not usually copy the aggressive behavior of their parents - Answer False
T/F: Longitudinal research finds that the more violence children watch on TV, the more violence
they exhibit later as teenagers and adults - Answer True
The text mentions that several years ago a man drove his truck through the window of a
crowded cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, and then emerged from the cab and began shooting people
at random. By the time the police arrived he had killed 22 people. What preceded this man's
shooting spree? - Answer Based on a ticket stub in his wallet, it can be assumed that he had
recently watched The Fisher King, a film depicting a deranged man firing a shotgun into a
crowded bar, killing several people
T/F: Studies have found that simply viewing television violence cannot numb people's reactions
to violence when they face real-life aggression - Answer False
If you are advertising a product on television and you want viewers to remember your ad, you
should advertise during a show that is - Answer Non-violent and non-sexually explicit
_______ are ways of behaving socially that we learn implicitly from culture - Answer Scripts
In a meta-analysis by Allen et al. (1995) it was found that the exposure to violent pornographic
material produced ________ in their hostility and aggressiveness toward women - Answer An
increase
Olweus studied bullying and a bullying intervention program in Norway. He found that 20
months after the program began, bullying had decreased by - Answer One half
According to your text, two teenagers in Tennessee took their guns and went out sniping at
passing cars on a freeway, killing one driver, because they - Answer Wanted to act out their
favorite video game, Grand Theft Auto
