According to Studies on Reactive and Proactive Aggression

question 64

Multiple Choice

According to studies on reactive and proactive aggression,

• A)reactively aggressive youngsters display deficiencies in early stages of the social-cognitive process.
• B)proactively aggressive youngsters display deficiencies in early stages of the social-cognitive process.
• C)reactive aggression is associated with delinquency related violence.
• D)proactive aggression is related to dating violence, but only when there are low levels of maternal warmth.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Stimuli

In classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimuli

A stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any prior learning.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior, encouraging the subject to associate certain behaviors with consequences.

Discriminative Stimulus

A stimulus that signals when a particular response is likely to be followed by a certain type of consequence.