PSY 3331 PRACTICE EXAM 4 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS)
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Which of the following is an example of aggression? Ans✓✓✓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 Ans✓✓✓True
Cross-cultural studies on human aggression have found that human
cultures __________ in their degree of aggressiveness Ans✓✓✓Vary
widely
Which of the following people is most likely to behave aggressively in
response to an insult Ans✓✓✓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. Ans✓✓✓Every one
In a cross-cultural study by Archer & McDaniel (1995), women
from________ showed greater evidence of aggressiveness
Ans✓✓✓Australia
, T/F: Chimps are often referred to as a "make love, not war" animal
Ans✓✓✓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 Ans✓✓✓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? Ans✓✓✓Yes, because not getting
the parking space frustrated her and led to her aggressive behavior
T/F: The race riots of 1967 and 1968 occurred because of relative
deprivation Ans✓✓✓True
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: Ans✓✓✓Attributed to the Bible, and in the story God
sanctioned the violence
VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS)
/ALREADY GRADED
Which of the following is an example of aggression? Ans✓✓✓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 Ans✓✓✓True
Cross-cultural studies on human aggression have found that human
cultures __________ in their degree of aggressiveness Ans✓✓✓Vary
widely
Which of the following people is most likely to behave aggressively in
response to an insult Ans✓✓✓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. Ans✓✓✓Every one
In a cross-cultural study by Archer & McDaniel (1995), women
from________ showed greater evidence of aggressiveness
Ans✓✓✓Australia
, T/F: Chimps are often referred to as a "make love, not war" animal
Ans✓✓✓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 Ans✓✓✓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? Ans✓✓✓Yes, because not getting
the parking space frustrated her and led to her aggressive behavior
T/F: The race riots of 1967 and 1968 occurred because of relative
deprivation Ans✓✓✓True
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: Ans✓✓✓Attributed to the Bible, and in the story God
sanctioned the violence
