AQA A-Level Psychology: Aggression
6 exam-style questions with full mark schemes and model answers. Write your own answer and the AI examiner marks it against the mark scheme.
Discuss neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression. [16 marks]
Outline and evaluate the frustration-aggression hypothesis as an explanation of human aggression. [8 marks]
Describe the ethological explanation of aggression. Refer to innate releasing mechanisms and fixed action patterns in your answer. [6 marks]
A new governor takes over a prison that has a high rate of violence between inmates. She notices that the wings are badly overcrowded, that there is very little to keep prisoners occupied during the day, and that staffing levels are low. One of her officers disagrees, arguing that the violence is simply down to the kind of people who end up in prison, many of whom were already violent before they arrived.
With reference to the situational and dispositional explanations of institutional aggression, explain the views of the governor and the officer. [6 marks]
Outline the role of testosterone in aggression. [4 marks]
Explain one limitation of using social learning theory to explain human aggression. [4 marks]