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Flashcards by maxytrejo1, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by maxytrejo1
about 12 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 7 Examples of Violence as an obstinate social problem | Intractability, Low base Rate, Containment, Adaptation, Erosion of Controls, Social Transmission, Multi Factorial Risk |
| How is violence an inevitable element of human behavior | Intracability: Survival behaviors are served by agression and anger |
| Agressive behavior is instrumental to: | self defence and the aquisition of resources |
| Why does violence remain intractable | Resources are finite, human nature if flawed and There is differential demand for resources |
| How many people are violent | LBR: very few are violent and those who are do it rarely |
| How does violence compare to kindness, gratitude, etc | Violence has a low probability |
| How is violence hard to predict? | becuase the base rate is low |
| What is the paradox for violence in regards to intervention | 1. Doesnt take new violent people to have a social problem 2. Preventive intervention is applied to non violent people = a waste |
| Examples of violence as a contained phenomena | geographicallly and demographically |
| Violence is primarily a problem of | large urban areas, and in people that lack a political clout |
| What does containment do? | few people worry about it as a personal relaity |
| What does containment breed? | complacency |
| humans are___ organisms | adaptable, we grow accustomed to awful things |
| What diminishes our responce to violence? | Cinema and medias exposure to the horror of violence |
| We have___ violence | habituated |
| Related exposure, fictional or real does what? | diminishes our revulsion of it |
| Violence feeds on__ | itself |
| What is one of the central tracks of civilization? | to control agressinve behavior |
| What does the social contract establish | strong external control mechanisms to inhibit aggresive behavior |
| Socialization is shaped to be? | internalize the prohibition againts agression |
| What raises the probability of violence | erosion of external and internal inhibitory controls |
| What disinhibits agressive behavior? | diminished expecations of punishment, weakening of values that counter agressive, substance abuse, desistisitaztion to the awfulnes of violence, and social contagious |
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