Module 43 - Antisocial Relations - Definitions
Craig Anderson
Exposure to hot room temperatures causes aggression (experiment)
MAOA
In one experiment, people with low _____ gave more unpleasant hot sauce to someone who had provoked them.
has more experience interacting with Asian people
Janie is amazed how Jim can recognize and identify people who are of Asian ethnic groups, while she really struggles with this type of identification. One can assume from this example that Jim:
a stereotype
Mr. Rogers thinks that all teenagers are reckless, promiscuous, irresponsible delinquents. Mr. Rogers appears to be associating qualities that are unrelated to the objective evidence that define all members of this particular age group. Mr. Rogers is demonstrating:
outgroup homogeneity effect
Perception of outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup members. Thus "they are alike; we are diverse."
biopsychosocial approach
Professor Garner emphasized that aggressive behavior often involves the interactive influence of personal frustration, exposure to aggressive models, and heightened levels of arousal. The professor's emphasis BEST illustrates:
frustration-aggression principle
Recently Tanya has been caught in heavy traffic when traveling to and from work. This situation has caused her to arrive to work late and arrive home at a much later time than normal. When she comes home, she slams the front door and tends to yell more at her children and husband over things that are rather insignificant. This behavior can BEST be explained by the:
the scapegoat theory
Roger recently lost his job and believes that it is a result of the increase in Mexican immigrants. He is demonstrating:
prejudice
Sara and a colleague are having dinner together. While they wait on their order, a Muslim family enters the restaurant and the woman is wearing a hijab. Sara's colleague leans closer to her and says "I am not sure how she expects to eat with all of that junk covering her face." Her colleague is demonstrating:
solitude
The frustration-aggression principle has been demonstrated with all of the following aversive stimuli EXCEPT:
scapegoating
The tendency for individuals, when frustrated or unhappy, to displace aggression onto groups that are disliked, visible, and relatively powerless
both reinforce desirable behaviors and frame statements positively
What parenting techniques can parents practice that does not model aggressive behavior?
a microaggression
When a police officer pulls over a car because the driver is an African-American male in an expensive car, the police officer has committed:
Daniel, who is 20 years old and has a wide face
Who is MOST likely to have high levels of testosterone?
social script
a culturally modeled guide for how to act in various situations
group identification
a feeling of belonging to a certain group of people
MAOA
a gene that appears to play an important role in preventing antisocial behavior in humans
stereotype
a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people
prejudice
an unjustifiable (and usually negative) attitude toward a group and its members. Prejudice generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predisposition to discriminatory action.
aggression
any physical or verbal behavior intended to harm someone physically or emotionally
microaggressions
common, everyday verbal or behavioral indignities and slights that communicate hostile, derogatory, and negative messages about someone's race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion
social inequalities
discrepancies in income, social status, etc. that may cause discrimination
vivid cases
extreme events feed stereotypes and prejudices. Ex: After 9/11 attacks many saw all Muslims as terrorists.
categorization
in theories of prejudice, then tendency to divide or classify people into groups on the basis of appearance or behavior
Ingroup homogeneity effect
some have found evidence or perceptions that ingroup members are all "alike" especially when differentiating ingroup from outgroup
frustration-aggression principle
the principle that frustration- the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal- creates anger which can generate aggression
just-world phenomenon
the tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get
ingroup bias
the tendency to favor our own group
other-race effect
the tendency to recall faces of one's own race more accurately than faces of other races
explicit prejudice
unfounded negative belief of which we're aware regarding the characteristics of an out-group
implicit prejudice
unfounded negative belief of which we're unaware regarding the characteristics of an out-group
discrimination
unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members
ingroup
"Us"—people with whom we share a common identity.
outgroup
"them" - those perceived as different or apart from our ingroup
the scapegoat theory
After the events of 9/11, some Americans began boycotting Arab-American stores and lashing out at any Middle Eastern person they saw. This behavior is BEST explained in terms of:
stereotypes
Arturo believes that most young women from California are extremely good looking and that extremely good-looking women are usually selfish and egotistical. His beliefs are examples of:
