aggression Flashcards
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what is the frustration aggression model
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it is a social psychological explanation, that states that goals being blocked causes frustration which leads to aggression.
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what is a social psychological explanation.
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when the environments interact with a person’s psychological characteristics.
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what are the two hypothesis about the frustration aggression model.
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- the original hypothesis.
- the weapon effect.
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who made the original hypothesis of the frustration aggression model.
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Dollard et al
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what does the original hypothesis of the frustration aggression model state.
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- frustration leads to aggression when a goal is blocked due to external factors.
- the aggression acts as an innate drive that needs to be released to remove negative feelings - cathartic.
- the cause of the frustration is sometimes is abstract or not available therefore the aggression would be displaced to a less powerful and abstract target who is available.
- after the aggression is released the person is less likely to be aggressive again.
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who made the weapon hypothesis for the frustration - aggression
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Berkowitz.
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what does the weapon hypothesis state - the frustration aggression model.
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- states that frustration might not be enough to cause aggression.
- only prepares for aggression.
- can be activated by aggressive cues.
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research on the weapon effect - frustration aggression model.
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what is the limbic system
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a subcortical structure that includes the hypothalamus and amygdala.
- linked in involvement of emotion regulation.
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what is the limbic explanation of aggression.
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- high activity in the amygdala leads to aggression; because the amygdala responds to environment threats.
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research support for the limbic system explanation of aggression.
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- Gospic et al.
- two conditions.
- measured activity of the amygdala before using fMRI.
- mild provocation.
- high activity in the amygdala = high aggression.
- gave benzodiazepine= reduces activity of the amygdala.
- shows less activity of amygdala = less aggression.
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what is the serotonin explanation of aggression - neural explanation.
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- serotonin regulates the firing of the neurone in the orbitofrontal cortex.
- at normal levels of serotonin the firing of neurones are low and more controlled.
- at low levels of serotonin = more firing of neurone = less control.
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research on the frustration aggression model
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procedure = jigsaw.
conditi
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How was social learning? Theory used explain aggression
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- Explains How aggression is directly and indirectly learned.
- The direct learning is three doing aggression and receiving a positive reward for it which is operant conditioning.
- The indirect learning is through vicarious reinforcement.
- It is proven by Bandura’s boba doll study.
- It suggests that kids will imitate the role model and a person they identify with.
- And they learn through the mediational processes.

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What is self efficacy?
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- The extent to which we believe our actions will Achieve desired goals.
- This grows with more positive at outcomes for aggression 
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Low external validity.
- Social learning theory for aggression 
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- Low external validity in research supporting social learning theory as an explanation for aggression.
- They use highly controlled environment, which create the perfect conditions that do not exist in real life .
- For example, in vendors study, the doll could not retaliate the aggression .
- This means that the tasks used Black, mundane realism.
- Furthermore, the Bobo doll was meant to be here anyways.
- Therefore, the children were not behaving abnormally.
- The task used lacks internal validity. Therefore, the conclusions drawn from it is invalid. 
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Real world application.
- Social learning theory for aggression 
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- It has real world application, because it could show children how to behave in a non-aggressive way.
- Through using vicarious reinforcement to prevent the development of aggressive behaviour.
- Giving opportunities for children to act in a non-aggressive way and rewarding them.
- Could work for behavioural therapies for children.
- It’s also useful for parents with aggressive children to stop them from being aggressive.
-, practical value
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Research support.
- Social learning theory for aggression 
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- Research support done on aggressive boys who are friends with other aggressive boys
- The boys mutually reinforced each other’s behaviours.
- They were age 9 to 12 years.
- They modelled aggression for each other and got a rewards from approval of the whole group.
- They all imitated each other because they identified with each other.
- This is predicted by SLT 
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However, research support does not explain proactive aggression.
- SLT for aggression 
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- This study does not explain proactive aggression in the boys.
- When proactive aggression happened, the boys only observed, and do not imitate.
- This might be due to proactive aggression being unpredictable.
- This shows that SLT is not a full explanation for all types of aggression
-Shows that it’s an incomplete explanation
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What is de-individualation?
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- A psychological process of a person losing their identity and self-awareness in a group, which allows them to become aggressive.
- Le Bon.
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What are the two types of social awareness?
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Private social awareness and public social awareness
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What is private self-awareness?
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- It focuses on our beliefs which is reduced in in a group setting because we focus on the outward behaviour of the group.

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What is public self-awareness?
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- What people think about us, which is also reducing group settings because we are judged as a group
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What are the factors that increase the de-individualation
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- Anonymity, which includes drugs, darkness.
- Shared responsibility, which equals less guilt 
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What is the research support on the individual of aggression?
- Research as students what they would do In private.
- And asked three different waiters to put it into categories. Who did not. Do you know the hypothesis.
- 229
- They found that 9% of answers web pro social behaviour.
- 36 were antisocial .
- 26 were criminal behaviour.
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What did Zimbardo say about the individualisation?
- Can you call that the Lucifer effect, and it’s caused by disinhibition and people become Irrational 
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Research support.
- de- Individual nation 
- Research, I looked at online rooms and found a high correlation with those who hide their identity and hostile messages.
- Implicated with self harm and suicide cases .
- It shows a link between aggressive behaviours and anonymity 
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However, the individual location does not Always lead to aggression.
- Deindividuation 
- The individual elation does not always lead to aggression like Zimbardo and other researchers suggested.
- Other research put people in a dark room, two conditions (independent groups)
- One group were placed in a dark room and told that they wouldn’t have to meet each other again.
- After a little while, they stopped talking and started to show affectionate and intimate behaviour.
- The other group who were told that they would have to meet each other show the significant lower intimate behaviour such as Kissing.
- It shows that the individual nation does not always looked aggression like predicted by the theories 
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Real world application
- D. Individualisation. 
- There’s real world application, because it could explain why baiting crowds happen.
- 21 cases in USA, suicide group crowds, who encouraged people to jump when they were going to jump.
- Often found in darkness, large groups and the jumper was high enough So they wouldn’t see the group.
- It shows that an increasing unanimity could lead to group aggression, and the theory is valid 
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Research support
- frustration aggression model.
- research support for key concepts in the model.
- meta analysis of 49 studies of displaced aggression.
- where aggression was directed towards a human target that did not cause the aggression.
- conclusion is that aggression is a reliable phenomenon.
- fustrated participants where unable to retaliate thoes who made them angry.
- lead them to be aggressive against an innocent party.
- frustration could lead to aggression against a weaker more available person.
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Role of catharsis.
- frustration aggression model
- aggression might not be cathartic.
- bushman.
- found that people who vented their frustration onto a punching bag where more aggressive than thoes who didn’t.
- doing nothing was most effective.
- does not work even for people who believe in it.
- suggested that people who feel better after venting tend to be more aggressive.
- central assumption is invalid.
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Frustration aggression link is too complex.
- frustration aggression model.
- research shows that frustration does not always lead to aggression.
- there’s no direct automatic link.
- people who are fustrated can express it in other ways such as being helpless or being determined.
- aggression could also be caused by other factors such as to get something, not always due to frustration.
- this suggests that frustration aggression model is indadquat.
- only explains how aggression is raised in some situations only.
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HOWEVER - there’s a reformation of the model which includes the other factors.
- frustration aggression model.
- reformed model into the negative effect.
- to take into account the other factors.
- which includes frustration and other factors.
- states that aggression is triggered by negative feelings in general and not just frustration.
- therefore frustration can form a part of a wider explain of things that aggression.
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What is the ethnological explanation?
An explanation that explains animals and humans behaviour by observing the innate behaviours that adaptive.
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How is aggression adaptive in the ethological explanation.
- aggression is beneficial for the whole species.
- because it’s rare that the defeated animal would be killed.
- often drafted animal would often be caused to extablish teratorty else where.
- causing a spread of species into more places.
- would try and seek other resources.
- less compitoon.
- higher survival rate.
- boys study: boys who display aggressive behaviour climb the dominance hierarchy to establish themselves and it’s important for thier development.
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What is ritualistic aggression
- a series of behaviours that are carried in set order.
- Lorenz observed that fights between species would not often result in severe injury.
- because it would harm the whole species as there will be less of them.
- ritualistic aggression works on conferentation,
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What is innate releasing mechanism.
Is an inbuilt psychological structure in the brain that is triggered by an environmental stimulus trigger it.
- causes the release of fixed action patterns that are in response of the stimulus.
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What are the six main features of fixed pattern actions.
Stareotyped, universal, not effected by learning, ballistic, singles purpose, response to identifiable stimulus.
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Tibergen research.
Procedure using stickleback fish that débalos red dot on their belly during mating season and becomes aggressive.
- if another male enters their territory.
- used diff shapes with red dot and all got attacked.
- no red spot = no aggression.
- found that the FAP’s were unchanged from all encounters
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Research support.
- ethnological explaination.
- lots of research that suggest that aggression is innate genetic.
- such as the MAOM-L study.
- twin studies and adoption studies such as the family study with people who have high aggression.
- all these studies show that aggression is due to a genetic adaptive factor.
- ethnological explaination is valid
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HOWEVER - aggressive behaviour differ from one cultural.
- ethnological epxlaintipns
- researcher found that cultural values influance culture more even in the same country.
- high rate of homocide which id proactive aggression is in the southern states compared to the northern states in the USA.
- this was due to the culture of honour which is more prominent in the south compared to the north.
- this study was done on white men.
- this shows that cultural values and norms could override the ethnological epxlaontipn and that the social environment is more important when it comes to aggression
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Ritualistic aggression is not just ritualistic to the same member of the species
- ehtolgocal epxlaontipn.
- research on a 4 year war of chimps with other group.
- they killed one group systematically.
- would often hold the chimp from the rival group and repeatedly hit it until an appeasement sign was shown on which then would be killed.
- the appeasement sign is not what triggered the aggressive behavior like the ethnological approach predicted.
- therefore it’s limited explaination.
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FAP is not fixed.
- ethnological explaination.
- outdated view.
- hunt pointed out that FAP are influenced by environmental factors and learning experiences.
- an aggressive fap is typically made from serval behaviours each lasting different times for each individual which’s shows that it’s not universal.
- even if the same encounter it could be changed because it improved through learning form experience
- model behaviour pattern replaced it.
- more flexible that Lorenz thoight.
