Meaning: Any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth. Classified under: Nouns denoting animals. Hypernyms (porpoise is a kind of...): dolphin (any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of porpoise): harbor porpoise; herring hog; Phocaena phocaena (the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific)
12 Angry Men (1957). The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.
Example: Men who batter their partners. Theory: Social learning theory â men learn their violent behavior in their family of. origin, and from a culture that rewards anger and violence in men; cognitive theory â. what men say to themselves in situations of stress increases their anger and their. propensity to be violent. Model: Cognitive-behavioral.