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3- Why are People Aggressive? Flashcards

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How are personal and situational factors similar?

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Specific factors determining aggression

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What do evolutionary accounts and social/biosocial accounts offer to explaining aggression?

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Why we (as a group) display aggression

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How do cognitive models explain how we process aggression?

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Multi-route models to aggression

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What 4 key personal factors can explain why someone is aggressive?

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Hormones, personality, gender, alcohol

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What hormone is linked to aggression?

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Testosterone

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Why can we not establish causation with testosterone and aggression?

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Effects are confounded with other variables

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What personality characteristics do violent offenders show?

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Low self-esteem and frustration intolerance

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What personality types are linked to aggression?

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Narcissistic and Type A personality types

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What is there some evidence of regarding gender and aggression?

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Some evidence of women being less aggressive

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What factor may hormones be confounded with regarding gender and aggression?

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Socialisation

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What type of aggression do men show more?

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More overt (physical) aggression

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What type of aggression do women show more?

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Indirect aggression

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What type of aggression is similar between men and women?

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Verbal aggression

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Why might alcohol influence aggression?

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It causes disinhibition- less cortical control

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How is the alcohol link well established with aggression?

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People who drink become aggressive

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What is the 2D: 4D ratio?

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Men’s ring finger generally have smaller indexes

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How has testosterone been linked to higher aggression?

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Higher self-reported aggression in males but not females

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What is the correlation between testosterone and aggression?

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Very small- only 2%

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What is the problem with measuring testosterone in regards to aggression?

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Correlations cannot establish causality

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What are the 2 main situational/societal factors that influence aggression?

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Physical environment and cultural norms

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What are the 2 factors of physical environment that affect aggression?

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Heat and crowding

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What is riot theory?

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The relationship between heat and aggression is not linear (‘inverted U’)

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What 2 ways may crowding influence aggression?

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Personal space and population density

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How do cultural norms affect aggression?

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Cultural variation in aggressive behaviour

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What do cultural norms determine?
What is and isn't acceptable behaviour
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How do subcultures influence aggression?
Some subcultures where aggression and violence are more accepted
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What is collective aggression?
A crowd baiting aggression
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6 factors influencing collective aggression
Nighttime Large crowd Warm temperature Long duration Crowd distance from victim Cities
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How might deindividuation influence collective aggression?
Crowds increase sense of anonymity, loss of identity, reduced punishment likelihood
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What is dehumanisation in relation to aggression?
Viewing the victim as 'inhuman'
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What do cultural norms show aggression as linked to?
Historical and geographical factors
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What is football hooliganism?
A subculture that carries out ritualised aggression linked to social status, group norms and values
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How is aggression implicated in gangs?
Gangs sometimes see violence as a part of life
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How does Darwin suggest that emotional states are evolved, adaptive, and useful?
Multiple species show same states
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How is aggression a good communication function?
It indicates the next reaction of the animal
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What does Darwin say happens if communication is beneficial?
It enhances and evolves
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How does Darwin suggest that opposite signals are expressed?
By opposite movements
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What is a form of social competence in aggression?
Sensitivity to social states
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What 3 functions does aggression have in evolutionary accounts?
1. An instinct 2. A form of communication 3. An adaptive mechanism
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What does the psychodynamic theory believe about aggression?
It is a release of built-up tension
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What does ethology believe about aggression?
Situation causes this innate, adaptive instinct
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What does evolutionary social psychology believe about aggression?
It is an innate survival mechanism
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What indicates that aggression is an evolutionary explanation?
Aggression is across humans and animals
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What purpose do evolutionary accounts see aggression as serving?
Promoting survival of our genes
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Where is aggression seen as a form of communication?
In humans as well as animals
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What is the survival benefit of aggression?
Harm can be avoided if the opponent recognises the aggression
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What kind of problems does aggression solve?
Adaptive ones
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Why may humans live in groups?
In order to defend themselves against other groups
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5 limitations of evolutional accounts
1. Potentially insufficient explanation 2. Difficulty applying animal studies to humans 3. Circular argument 4. Lack of genetic evidence 5. Biosocial accounts are more popular
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How do biosocial accounts suggest that aggression is cause?
Arousal + context
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What 3 theories are involved in biosocial accounts?
Frustration-aggression hypothesis, catharsis hypothesis, excitation transfer model
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What does the frustration-aggression hypothesis suggest causes aggression?
A frustrating event/situation
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What is a limitation of the frustration-aggression hypothesis?
It is too simplistic
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What does the catharsis hypothesis suggest?
Aggression is a way to 'let off steam' and release frustration
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What are the limitations of the catharsis hypothesis?
Poorly supported, this may actually increase aggression
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What does the excitation transfer model suggest?
We are more likely to be aggressive by misinterpreting physiological arousal when we are already in a heightened arousal state
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How do social accounts explain aggressive behaviour?
As learnt
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When are we more likely to repeat aggressive behaviour?
When it is rewarded
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When may we think aggression is an acceptable behaviour?
If we observe someone else getting away with it
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What does the catharsis hypothesis suggest about media exposure to violence?
It will decrease aggression
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What does social learning suggest about media exposure to violence?
It will increase aggression
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What is the effect of observing violence?
Increases physical and verbal aggression
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What is the effect of prolonged media exposure?
Desensitisation effects
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What are selective effects?
People who are more aggressive anyway choose to expose themselves to more violent media
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What is the main cognitive model?
The General Aggression Model
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What are distal factors in the general aggression model?
Biological and environmental factors
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How many stages are the proximal factors in the general aggression model?
3
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What does stage 1 of the GAM do?
Inputs personal and situational factors
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What does stage 2 of GAM do?
Routes stage 1 inputs present internal state- may enhance or lessen aggression
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What does stage 3 of GAM do?
Outcome appraisal of the situation and response decision
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What does our next action after our initial reaction depend on?
The amount of resources we have to appraise the event
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How does aggression result?
A repeating loop of reappraisal

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