Chapter Questions

1. Roger is a heavyweight boxing champion. When he engages in fighting in the ring for a title match, would you say punching his opponent is hostile aggression or instrumental aggression? Support your answer.

2. Define classic illusory correlation and give an example.

3. Why does researcher Christopher Ferguson posit that the news media shouldn’t “make such a fuss” when it finds out that a shooter is a young male who played violent video games? http://techland.time.com/2013/10/08/researcher-says-linking-video-games-to-gun-violence-is-a-classic-illusory-correlation/

4. When we think about bullying, we think about both physical and verbal aggression. Provide at least one example of a physically aggressive type of bullying and one example of a verbal aggressive type of bullying.