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28 Cards in this Set
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One Person's terrorist is another person's ____
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Freedom Fighter
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Name of man with definition for terrorism.
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Brian Jenkins
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What is the definition for terrorism?
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Acts carried out in dramatic way to attract publicity & create an atmosphere of alarm that goes far beyond the actual victims
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How does terrorism differ from mass killing or genocide?
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Others focus on killing an entire group while terrorism focuses on killin only a few to influence a much wider audience
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What is the differenct between murdered and terrorist?
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In murders the intended victim is the actual target. Terrorist true target is the wider population, attempting to deliver a message.
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It's common to view terrorists as what? GIve example
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Mentally Abnormal; Karzynski
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We are suprised when we see terrorist as what? Example
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Ordinary; Timothy McVeigh
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Parallels with genocide literature is what kind of view?
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Situationist
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Is there one single terrorist personality?
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No
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What are terroist driven by?
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Ideology
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Who stress the normality of terrorist and the futility of looking to personality theories to explain complex phenomena?
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John Horgan-Terrorist Personality
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What do others stress?
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Importance of personality and psychopathy of terrorist behavior tendency towads mentalillness
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Literature is what type of view?
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Dispositionist
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Frustration Aggresion Theory was developed by who? Utilized by who
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Dollard; Bertzwitz
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When does aggression occur?
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When an idividuals goals are frustrated or blocked
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What does frustrations lead to?
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To aggression and Aggression is always a result of a frustration
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Under frustration, Terrorist act is a form of what?
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A form of displacement
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What did the study of the west german terrorist in 1981 find in frustration aggression?
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Many had personal differences. In theri early life, 25% had lost a parent
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What 3 people beleived narcissism provides a plausible explanation for terrorist avtivity?
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Pearlstein, crayton, and post
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What is narccissism?
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loving oneself
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When people do not share the narccissistic sense of himself, what does this produce
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narcissistic rage and aggression
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The 1981 West Germany study of Narcissism sparked interest in this study and found evidence in what?
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Personal Failure/ set backs. Terrorism results from the rage and damage to self esteem says Post
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Under Freudian/Psychoanalytic Theory, what does Freud say about repression?
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Desires are often repressed becauze they are socially unacceptable
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Under freudian, what is oedipal complex.
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a stage of psychosexual development which Freud identified in childhood where the child comes to see the father as an advesary and competitor of mom's love
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Discuss Konrad Kellen under freudian.
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He analyzed Klein and Jackal
Said conscious or unconscious hatred of the father led each to rebel against authority with violence. Shades of Lasswell |
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Common Problems with these thoeries.Psychoanalytic? Psychological Reductionism?Victim of what?
How are most terrorist? Fallacy of composition? Obsession |
-much out of fashion in psych.
-too simplistic; reduce complex behavior -victim of fundmt.attrib. error; under estimate power of situation. -Most are normal; no single personality -failure to look @ traits in general population. -obsession with ideology |
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Are situational forces important?
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Yes
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What may be critical? What may be the only course of action? Give an example
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Social Environment; Terrorism; Suppression of human rights in Saudi Arabia.
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