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49 Cards in this Set
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Pinker uses the word "a foreign country" to refer to...
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The Past (8000 BCE - 1970s)
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Pinker told the stories in the Hebrew bible because...
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They off a window into the lives and values of old civilizations
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Students have ____ victimization rates than non students
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Lower
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The average percentage of deaths in warfare for hunter gatherers is close to...
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15%
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Pinker's Theory of the Civilizing Process was inspired by...
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Norbert Elias
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Hobbes laid out 3 causes of quarrel: competition, diffidence, and glory. Diffidence means...
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Fear
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The dilemma that both an armed burglar and an armed homeowner face when they meet each other is called...
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Hobbesian Trap, Security Dilemma, and Schelling's Dilemma
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When it comes to violence, the united States is not a country, its ____ countries.
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3
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In the US, the annual homicide rate usually gets stuck in the ____ range where we find it today.
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5 - 15 per 100,000
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The herding hypothesis is often used to explain violence associated with...
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Southern Culture of Honor
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One way in which the 1990s did not overturn the decivilization of the 1960s is in...
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Pop Culture
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Which country did not have a decline of violence in the 1990s?
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England
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Pinker says that the economy determines violence in a society. True or False?
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False
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Many surveys find that men and women are simililiar in "ever using violence against their partners." Pinker thinks this is because...
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survey data are dominated by marital spats
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Hate crime statistics from the FBI are available since...
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1990s
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According to Pinker, the single most important cause of the Rights Revolution is...
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the technologies
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Dugen expects indiscriminate conciliatory efforts to have a ____ effect on terrorism than discriminate conciliatory efforts.
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Larger
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Which of the following is not an example of conciliatory efforts against terrorism?
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Deportation policies for known offenders
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According to Nagin, at which of the following stages, certainty of the punishment is most important?
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The risk of apprehension
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Which of the following is not a character of the tit for tat strategy?
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Competitive
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In Reiss and Roth (1993), the panel's main interest was in...
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Interpersonal violence
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Regarding alcohol, which of the following is not true.
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Research has shown the exact effects of alcohol on the Central Nervous System
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According to Vossekeil (2002), there is a profile or set of demographic traits that a set of perpetrators have in common. True or False?
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False
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Levin and Madfiss' (2000) first stage of a sequential model stems from....
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Agnew's strain theory
(Chronic-Uncontrolled-Acute-Planning-Massacre) |
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According to Pinker, which of the following is not part of the psychology of predatory violence?
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Self-handicapping
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Inter-male aggression is related to...
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Dominance violence
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Stanley Milgram is known for....
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The obedience to authority experiment
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Which of the following is not used to explain ideology violence?
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Hawthorne effect (people act differently when being observed)
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Which of the following is false?
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Mirror neurons are a synonym for sympathy
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Which is true?
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Exercising willpower makes it hard to exercise it a second time
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Which of the following is not true about the human moral sense?
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Morality is a force that works naturally to reduce violence.
i.e killing to protect |
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Our moral sense breaks into 4 modes. Which is not one?
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Norm purifying
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The Flynn effect refers to...
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Intelligence
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Flynn found that the increase in IQ scores has come from improvements on sections of IQ tests that measure...
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Abstract thinking
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The Pacifists Dilemma is a variation of the...
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Prisoner's Dilemma
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The theory of Norbert Elias emphasizes the leviathan and ____ as the two drivers of the European Civilizing process
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Gentle Commerce
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According to Pinker, which of the following will NOT help reduce violence against women?
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Women live in a collectivist society
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Recall the wine-testing study, which of the following is FALSE about pluralistic Ignorance?
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People continue false compliance even with anonymity
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Pinker's 5 Developments? (FLERG)
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Feminization
Levitation Empathy Reason Gentle Commerce |
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Hobbes
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Strongly believes in monarch to rule.
People are naughty by nature. |
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Rousseau
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Believes men are born good, society corrupts.
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Cesare Beccaria
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Believed punishments must be swift, certain, deterrent, public, and proportionate.
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Dugen
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Believed in raising cost of terrorism through extended sentencing, deportation, apprehensions, etc.
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Asch
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Line experiment
(willingness to compromise own judgment for sake of following the group) |
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Milgram
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Shock experiment
(people engage in immoral activity to follow authority) |
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John Locke
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"Logic is the anatomy of thinking"
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Fiske's Relational Models (CAME)
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Communal Sharing
Authority Ranking Market Pricing Equality Matching |
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Maslow
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Hierarchy of Needs
Psychological-Safety-Love-Esteem-Actualization |
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Norbert Elias
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Inspired Pinker's theory of the Civilizing Process
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