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Aggression and Behavior, 2004.
An examination of the relationship between aggression and behavior.
2,452 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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The primary focus of this paper is an examination of aggression related to behavioral types in order to determine the extent to which aggression relates to behavior. Three separate aggression analysis scales are used to survey undergraduate students to determine what behavior types and other aggression patterns could be distinguished between men and women. In addition, a comprehensive literature review is presented that examined prior research conducted with regard to aggression and behavior. The paper contends that the results suggest that men are more likely to demonstrate aggression associated with behaviors related to their perceptions of self-esteem and peer pressure and other behavioral dysfunctions or discomfort. Women are more likely to be the victims of aggression, but will act out when provoked. These ideas are explored in the paper in greater detail.
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"From a behavioral standpoint aggression exhibited in males has been linked with behavioral patterns including a concern with honor and face-saving mechanisms, particularly in certain subcultures including the southern U.S. (Graham & Wells, 2001: 595). In other studies male aggression is considered a more 'normative' behavior pattern and among males generally considered more acceptable and pleasurable as an activity (Graham & Wells, 2001). The primary behavior associated with aggression in females that is suggested by studies is jealousy, though aggression in women has also been linked with previous aggression or misbehavior from another person that incites aggressive activities in the female aggressor (Graham & Wells, 2001). This behavioral trait may be linked to insecurities or peer pressure that causes females to feel the need to compete. Females are more likely to demonstrate female to female aggression rather than aggressive tendencies toward a member of the opposite sex as well (Bateman et. al, 1998)."
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Aggressive Behavior, 2006.
A look at how aggressive behavior is nurtured and seen in society.
1,381 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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In this paper the author looks at how aggressive behavior is developed and nurtured in society. The author examines cases where aggressive behavior has been enhanced due to weapons given to the subjects in the study. He then looks at cases of aggressive behavior where no weapons were physically given, only pictures of weapons were shown to the subjects. The author also points out the differences in aggressive behavior between men and women. The paper concludes with the statement that further research is needed to determine the exact roles that biology and environment play in evoking aggression, and how aggressive behavior can be controlled or eliminated effectively to the greater benefit of society.
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"Finding the underlying causes of aggressive behavior is important for our society. Given the high levels of violent acts committed, the determination of possible reasons for aggression is important to ameliorate aggressive instincts in individuals who experience them. Many aggressive/violent acts involve the use of a weapon. Consequently, the question of what causes aggression becomes key. Is aggression inherent to the individual, destined to be expressed regardless of the presence of weapons? "
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Aggressive Behavior in Schoolchildren, 2006.
A Psycho-Educational evaluation of aggressive behaviour in school children.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, $ 62.95
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The following paper briefly discusses a template for a psycho-educational assessment of aggressive behavior in school-age children. Specifically, the paper looks at best practices in the assessment of aggressive behavior in these young people as well as informal and formal approaches which might assist in the proper gauging of aggressive behavior in young people. Finally, the paper offers some recommendations "from the field" for the proper assessment of aggressive behavior. In the final analysis, the paper presents a norm-referenced instrument and a general methodology that should allow observers to define what aggressive behavior is and how it can be distinguished from "normal" childhood behavior.
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Aggressive Behavior, 2003.
An examination of whether aggressive behavior is biologically or environmentally determined.
4,683 words (approx. 18.7 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 120.95
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This paper explains that there are differing viewpoints in mind when attempting to ascertain what the sole cause of aggressive behavior actually is. It discusses that this is due to the fact that aggressive behavior is a complex relationship between chemical, structural and behavioural factors. This paper tries to define the causes of aggressive behavior.
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'Aggression is behaviour motivated by the intent to harm or injure another human being, animal or inanimate object through physical or psychological means (Klein, 2000). From a behavioural perspective aggression is hypothesised to be learned and maintained through social experiences. Learned behaviour through social experiences is identified as social learning theory and can take the form of exposure to direct or vicarious experiences (Bandura, 1973). A competing hypothesis to Bandura?s social learning theory is social cognition in which the development of aggressive styles of behaviour is acquired early in the lifespan in the form of scripts (internal representations of how to behave in particular situations). Scripts are maintained through rehearsal in which the individual assesses later situations and determines whether the previously learnt script fits the presented situation (Huesmann, 1994). Biologically speaking there are many hypothesised explanations such as a reduction in serotonin (Klein, 1992), increase in testosterone (Rosenweig, Breedlove & Leiman, 2001), structural or metabolic differences in the prefrontal cortex (Raine, 2002) and structural differences in the amygdala (Barrett, Dunbar & Lycett, 2002). However a sole definitive origin for aggressive behaviour either biologically or behaviourally remains unknown."
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Reducing Aggressive Behavior in the Elderly, 2002.
A study of behavioral management training in an effort to reduce aggressive behavior in dementia patients.
3,147 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 91.95
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This study examines the effects of behavioral management training in reducing the occurrence of aggressive behavior among elderly patients diagnosed with dementia. Forty-five involuntary elderly patients in a residential care center were observed by certified nurses assistants (CNA) and licensed practical nurses as to the number of aggressive behaviors displayed before nurses completed a month of behavioral training and after completing training. Results show no significant differences in the occurrence of aggressive behavior in Pre and Post training.
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"Few would argue that our elderly are a primary concern when special care is needed. Special care often results in the need for outside assistance such as nursing care residential centers or what is commonly known as nursing homes for the elderly. Unfortunately many of the elderly residents in these residential care facilities are diagnosed with dementia making care a challenge. Dementia is classified as an impairment disorder effecting the vascular or neurological structures of the brain. In same case, dementia is treatable as in cases with brain tumors or dementia due to a metabolic cause."
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Heat and Aggressive Behavior, 2002.
An overview of aggressive behavior characteristics.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 62.95
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This seven-page undergraduate paper discusses aggressive behavior. In psychiatric populations, impulsivity has been reported in conjunction with aggressive behavior in several contexts. Laboratory research has shown that hot temperatures can, when coupled with provocation, increase a person's willingness to hurt another person.
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Aggressive Behavioral Patterns, 2006.
This paper examines a study on aggressive behavior and gang rape.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 5 sources, $ 26.95
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The paper looks at the study of Porter and Alison that focused on group rape and the hostility behaviors that are evident by the offenders. In this study, the investigation attempted to prove the hypothesis that in gang rape situations there is not a group aggressive behavioral pattern but that each individual will be affected differently during the course of the rape. Therefore, there is no one measurement of behavior, aggression or hostility that can define offenders in gang rape situations.
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"The authors found, however, that in gang rape situations, the findings indicate that there is a "uniform" behavioral pattern that emerges among the offenders. This pattern of behavior has a foundation in the behavioral patterns of the leader of the group that sets the emotional context of the offense, leading all other members of the group to follow this behavioral pattern."
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Aggressive Behavior and Violent Video Games, 2008.
A analysis of three studies addressing aggressive behaviour and violent video games.
1,821 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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This paper examines studies pertaining to violent video games as encouragers of aggressive behaviour. The paper explains that these studies take different approaches to the same mechanism that much previous research has asserted to exist between young people who play violent video games and observable aggression expressed in their thinking and self-expression or behaviour. The writer points out that one paper was found to be more thoughtful, varied, less reductive and more generative of new questions than the others towards reflection on what studies of this variety can produce in terms of useful or stimulating information. The writer then looks at how all three studies indicate the sway in psychology of what previous studies have found in numbers, in studies of varying quality or small differences seeming to be unanimous in correlating violent video games and user aggression. The writer concludes that many studies addressing violent video games in relation to aggression obviously point to an unspoken question as to why such aggression of sometimes very serious forms is demonstrated by many persons in North America - a society that has attained one of the highest standards of living, ever seen.
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"A comment is made on violent media as known to produce aggressive behaviour according to various studies of different kinds. The conclusion repeats the introduction's statement on violent video games perhaps inducing automatic aggressive associations of the self. However, the reader is never quite sure what aggressive associations of the self are. One presumes that a student of a certain age has enough insight to report that, yes, he or she is aware of feeling angry or 'wired up' after interacting with a violent video game, but this need mean very little. Perhaps a student having had a difficult morning or a delayed trip to school would report that he or she also felt aggressive, or a student having had to deal with an intense, unpleasant experience of another kind. Again, is aggression anger, or anger expressed outwardly, or annoyance?"
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Aggressive Behavior, 2005.
A summary of a research study on aggressive behavior.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper presents a summary of a research study on aggressive behavior that explores the link between substance use patterns of young offenders and violent crime. The research hypothesis and the methods used by the researchers are cited as well.
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"Lennings, Copeland and Howard argue their purpose is to validate the possibility that a connection exists between substance use or types of substances used and engaging in violent crime. The research hypothesis is that illicit substance use is related to a history of violent crime. The sample population was a group of adolescent detainees who were provided with a survey over a one-month period in Queensland, Australia.
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Television Violence and Aggressive Behavior, 2006.
A paper looking at the link between violence seen on television and aggressive behavior.
1,686 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 54.95
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This paper takes a look at the various aspects and factors affecting media violence and examines evidence looking at whether there is a cause and effect relationship between media violence and aggressive behavior.
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Introduction
Perceived Media Violence and its Beginnings
Empirical Evidences
Brain Mapping and TV Violence
Effects of Third Variables
Recommendations
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"Television and media has remained a force to reckon with in terms of entertainment value, pervasiveness, and effectiveness in influencing personal perceptions and decisions. Television has, in more ways than one, helped build mega corporations through product advertisements, created bigger than life celebrities, and shaped standards of beauty, wealth, good and evil. There is a reason why mega corporations invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in television advertisements to promote their products: television makes money. However, recent studies have cited increasing violence in TV programming. In the flurry of things, amidst the flashy advertisements, crashing cars in adventure series, and dramatic violence on TV, one might ask: when does business entrepreneurship end, and where does social responsibility begin? For a country that prides itself for its independence and individuality, setting boundaries in many aspects of daily life is bound to be a tedious task."
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Violent Video Games Do Effect Aggressive Behavior, 2002.
Report on the direct correlation between increased violent behavior in children and the amount of violent video games viewed.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 12 sources, $ 89.95
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Research on exposure to television and movie violence suggests that playing violent video games will increase aggressive behavior. Playing violent video games also decreases prosocial behavior. Laboratory exposure to a graphically violent video game increased aggressive thoughts and behavior. Video game violence has a positive effect on aggressive behavior. By reducing exposure to violence, children can reduce their outward aggressive behavior.
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Aggressive Behavior In America, 2002.
Analysis of causes of violent behavior in the U.S.
4,275 words (approx. 17.1 pages), 23 sources, $ 135.95
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Analysis of causes of violent behavior in the U.S. Combination of poverty, right wing religious fervor, family structure, television, American past. Rise of teen violence.. Cites demographics as playing a major role in aggression (gulf between the haves and have-nots). Contends that laws have failed to prevent aggressive behavior.
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"DO DEMOGRAPHICS AFFECT AGGRESSION AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR?
INTRODUCTIO
It is easy to speculate that crowded urban conditions foment aggressive behavior. We constantly are reminded of that through the media in racially-motivated riots in Britain, as well as violence in schools, playgrounds, in housing projects and on the streets of decaying urban environments. However, as this overview will show, it is not necessarily the sociological gulf between the have's and the have-nots, but the psychological distance among juveniles as well as adults which brings aggressive behavior to the fore.
Poverty, minority prejudice, harassment and bullying in school, "ghetto" housing, even the media's portrayal of "The ..."
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Aggressive Behavior Towards Nurses, 2002.
The handling of aggression by psychiatric surgical patients who also suffer from substance abuse.
3,842 words (approx. 15.4 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 105.95
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This paper discusses the importance of providing nurses with a general care framework for dealing with the hostility and aggressiveness that is often associated with surgical patients with both a psychiatric diagnosis and a substance abuse problem. This paper briefly presents and discusses an interactive conceptual model of factors giving rise to the aggressive behavior. It also delineates and discusses the steps advanced practical nurses can take to address the problem.
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"What actions can be taken by the advanced registered nurse practitioner to reduce aggressive behavior in surgical patients with both a psychiatric diagnosis and a substance abuse problem? According to Morrison, Ramsey and Snyder (2000a), determining an answer to this question is important for several reasons. First, most staff nurses are woefully unprepared for handling the complexity of issues attending to this patient type which means that many of patients' needs go unmet.
Second, Morrison et. al (2000a) report that an unfortunate reality is that the health care system is seeing an increase in these and similar patient types. Indeed, it is noted that up to 40 percent of all hospital admissions in the United States, are for patients who have some form of substance abuse problem either alone or in addition to the reason for admission."
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Aggression Replacement Training, 2007.
This paper describes aggression replacement training which works to give adolescents positive alternatives to their aggression and antisocial behavior.
2,328 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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This paper presents a thorough explanation of aggression replacement training and the basic tenants of this form of therapy. The goal is to give adolescents alternatives to their aggression and antisocial behavior and teach them to recognize the precursors to their physically aggressive and threatening behavior. The author also cites the importance of adolescents considering the consequences of their actions and taking positive control of their situation. The paper further describes the three intervention techniques used that correspond with the three components of aggressive behavior.
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"A group format is generally used for this type of training, because the dynamics of the group can be used to help advance learning much more quickly. Some of the ways that learning is solidified are through role playing, homework assignments, and the repetition of important concepts (Glick, et al, 1986). There are both pre- and post-tests that are given to the adolescents in order to help determine whether the program was effective and how much skill development the participants have seen, and adults that have interaction with these adolescents outside of the group, such as probation officers, teachers, and parents, are given information that explains the techniques and terminology that are used in the program (Goldstein & Glick, 1994). "
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Aggression and Autism, 2005.
A look at aggressive behavior in non-verbal autistic students.
904 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses aggression in non-verbal autistic students and looks at how such aggressive behavior might be curbed. The paper discusses social science theories as they relate to aggression in non-verbal autistic students as well as a teaching strategy for curbing the aggressive behavior and enabling the child to learn new behaviors.
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"The purpose of the study is to examine effects of a teaching strategy on autistic students' exhibition of non-verbal aggression. Theoretical Framework Social science theories are used as theoretical frameworks for studies. In this case the theory provides an explanation and predication for how things operate. Creswell Greenspan provided a theory that will be used for this study. Greenspan's theory, an alternative to behaviorism, the Floor Time Model, is based on the developmental approach to helping..."
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