Lesson 4.3.8.4

4.3.8.4 Institutional aggression and media influences on aggression Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 3

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The 20 questions

  1. Which model provides a dispositional explanation of institutional aggression in prisons?

    • Frustration-aggression model
    • Importation model
    • Deindividuation model
    • Deprivation model
  2. Which model provides a situational explanation for institutional aggression in prisons?

    • Deprivation model
    • Social learning model
    • Importation model
    • Desensitisation model
  3. According to the deprivation model, what causes institutional aggression in prisons?

    • Subcultural values
    • Environmental stressors
    • Pre-existing traits
    • Genetic predispositions
  4. Who proposed the importation model of institutional aggression in prisons?

    • Dollard and Miller
    • Bandura and Walters
    • Irwin and Cressey
    • Sykes and Matza
  5. Which famous study supports a situational explanation of institutional aggression in a simulated prison setting?

    • Asch's conformity study
    • Bobo doll study
    • Stanford prison study
    • Milgram's obedience study
  6. Which methodological issue limits Zimbardo's prison study as evidence for situational aggression?

    • Low reliability
    • Ethical approval
    • Small sample size
    • Demand characteristics
  7. Which media effect involves a reduction in emotional response to violence after repeated exposure?

    • Cognitive priming
    • De-individuation
    • Disinhibition
    • Desensitisation
  8. Which media effect involves a lowering of the restraints that normally stop aggression?

    • Desensitisation
    • Disinhibition
    • Frustration
    • Cognitive priming
  9. Which media effect involves aggressive thoughts being made more accessible in memory after exposure to violence?

    • Disinhibition
    • Cognitive priming
    • Desensitisation
    • Anonymity
  10. Why is it difficult to establish causality in correlational video game aggression research?

    • Ethical issues
    • Sample bias
    • Demand characteristics
    • Direction of effect
  11. A prisoner with a violent criminal history continues behaving aggressively inside prison. Which model best explains this?

    • Deindividuation model
    • Importation model
    • Cognitive priming model
    • Deprivation model
  12. What type of factor does the deprivation model focus on when explaining institutional aggression?

    • Situational factors
    • Genetic factors
    • Dispositional factors
    • Biological factors
  13. Research suggests the effect of media violence on real-world aggression is best described as what?

    • Small and indirect
    • Completely absent
    • Large and direct
    • Purely deterministic
  14. A researcher argues that repeated exposure to violent games makes players less shocked by real violence. Which concept does this describe?

    • Frustration-aggression
    • Cognitive priming
    • Innate releasing mechanism
    • Desensitisation
  15. Who identified the five specific deprivations experienced by prisoners that can trigger institutional aggression?

    • Albert Bandura
    • Irwin and Cressey
    • Philip Zimbardo
    • Gresham Sykes
  16. Which concept explains how media violence can cause a child to imitate aggressive behaviours directly?

    • Desensitisation
    • Catharsis
    • Social learning
    • Disinhibition
  17. Which effect of violent media is best described as making violent ideas come to mind more readily?

    • Cognitive priming
    • Disinhibition
    • Institutional deprivation
    • Desensitisation
  18. Finding that prisoners with childhood trauma are more aggressive in prison supports which explanation?

    • Dispositional explanation
    • Deindividuation explanation
    • Frustration-aggression explanation
    • Situational explanation
  19. What term describes reduced physiological arousal to violence caused by repeated exposure to violent media?

    • Cognitive priming
    • Vicarious reinforcement
    • Desensitisation
    • Disinhibition
  20. Which model explains institutional aggression through environmental factors like overcrowding?

    • Importation model
    • Deprivation model
    • Genetic model
    • Frustration model

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