Author Question: After watching wrestling on TV for an hour, five-year-old Samuel went outside to play. When ... (Read 146 times)

beccaep · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

After watching wrestling on TV for an hour, five-year-old Samuel went outside to play. When five-year-old Jamie, who lives next door, came outside, Samuel shoved him and tried to get him in a head-lock. This situation can best be explained by ________.

A) the Type A behavior pattern
B) excitation transfer theory
C) instrumental aggression
D) the social learning perspective
E) classical conditioning

Question 2

The social learning perspective on aggression suggests that ________.

A) people acquire their aggressive behaviors from direct experiences or from observing aggressive models
B) frustration leads to the arousal of an aggression drive which is usually expressed in socially acceptable ways
C) frustration causes the activation of our fighting instincts
D) the motive to harm or injure others is an innate human drive that cannot be easily controlled or eliminated
E) people are born with aggressive tendencies which are displayed in some social settings