Statistics for aggression in psychology

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
area of brain responsible for evaluation emotional importance of sensory info	Amygdala	100%
name of the hormone that produces male characteristics, one of which is "aggressive behaviour"	Testosterone	100%
area of brain formation of LTM, allows animals to compare current threat to past experiences	Hippoccampus	50%
what rate of variance did Concarro (1997) find in twin studies? (i have literally no clue whatthis means)	50%	0%
who found men to be more aggressive than women?	Archer (2009)	0%
which researcher found a dutch family to all have abnormally low levels of MAOA and a defective gene?	Brunner et al (1993)	0%
which researcher distinguished between MAOA-L and MAOA-H by studying 500 children?	Caspi et al (2002)	0%
what gene did Tihohen (2015) find MAOA-L to be found in combination with in aggressive Finnish prisoners?	CDH13	0%
what did they say we should distinguish aggression from?	Dominance	0%
research support for less serotonin = more aggression	Duke et al (2013)	0%
which explanation states all members have a repertoire of stereotyped behaviours?	Ethological explanation for aggression	0%
what did a study of 14k adoptions in Denmark which found that criminal children would also likely have criminal biological fathers provide evidence for?	Genetic effect	0%
area of brain that helps coordinate behaviours that satisfy emotional urges	Limbic system	0%
only children who had MAOA-L and had been what displayed anti-social behaviour?	Maltreated	0%
which gene is implicated in aggression?	MAOA	0%
who suggested that the definition of aggression needs revising?	Mazur (1985)	0%
who carried out a meta analysis of 24 twin and adoption studies and suggested a 50% variance rate?	Miles and Carey (1997)	0%
what increases in abnormal levels if this gene is defective?	Neurotransmitters	0%
instead of more aggressively, how does testosterone cause women to act according to eisenegger?	Nicer	0%
who found reduced amygdala volume to predict development of aggression?	Pardini et al (2014)	0%
evidence for role of hippocampus comes from...	Raine et al (2004)	0%
normal levels of this exert a calming ihibitory effect on neural firing in the brain	Serotonin	0%