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| I. Describe aggression and distinguish between instrumental and hostile aggression, noting the limitations in this classification. |
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| II. Understand how gender and personality relate to the expression of aggression. |
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| III. Describe how delegitimizing outgroups can facilitate aggression. |
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| IV. Define the main features of two biologically based theories of aggression. What are the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches to aggression? |
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| V. Discuss the importance from a historical perspective of the frustration-aggression hypothesis, emphasizing the findings regarding the concept of catharsis. |
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| VI. Summarize the cognitive-neoassociationist model's explanation of how negative affect-from various sources-may contribute to aggression. |
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| VII. Discuss the underlying causes for the facilitating effects alcohol and physiological arousal can have on aggression. |
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| VIII. Discuss the contributions of social learning theory toward understanding instrumental aggression and evidence relating media and violence. |
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| IX. Describe the main features of three approaches-disinhibition, formation of aggressive scripts, and cognitive priming-that seek to explain how exposure to media violence influences behavior. |
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| X. Discuss the findings regarding the impact of pornography on sexual aggression. |
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| XI. Discuss the relationships among culture, sexual scripts, and acquaintance rape. |
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| XII. Define and discuss the findings regarding the relationship between sexual jealousy and aggression, and how relationship violence differs as a function of relationship stage. |
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| XIII. Describe the important features and relative effectiveness of the various techniques designed to reduce aggression: punishment; inducing incompatible responses; cognitive interventions; social modeling; internalizing anti-aggressive beliefs into the self-concept; apologies as aggression controllers; and social skills training. |