Compare and contrast instrumental aggression and reactive aggression. Give an example of each
What will be an ideal response?
• Compare and contrast in terms of behavioral responses, cognitive processing of event, social implications of aggression
• Instrumental aggression – aggression that is premeditated or planned; means to an end (to get something, hurt others, etc.)
o Example – taking a toy or object belonging to another; planning a fight after school (any reasonable example)
• Reactive aggression – response to a provocation; angry and impulsive; result of poor anger or impulse control
o Example – thrown out of game for a foul followed by a temper tantrum (yelling, hitting, profanity); etc. (any reasonable example)
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a. white matter; gray matter b. gray matter; white matter c. forebrain; midbrain d. midbrain; forebrain
Dick was asked what he ate yesterday for breakfast. Recalling his meal is an example of Freud’s awareness level of the
a. preconscious.
b. conscious.
c. id.
d. unconscious.
One reason many psychologists question Rhine's early experiments with extrasensory perception is that he
a. used stage mentalists and performers. b. reinterpreted his results when they appeared negative. c. did not use adequate security or controls. d. was using methods common to clinical psychology exclusively.
If you are given a physics problem, what might aid your understanding of the problem?
a. Your mental representations of the parts of the problem relate to one another in a meaningful way. b. The mentally represented parts of the problem correspond to the elements of the problem in reality. c. Having taken courses in physics that provide the background knowledge for solving the problem. d. All of these.