Agression Flashcards

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Neural Mechanisms of aggression

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Gospic et al
- Proposer (confederate offers to split money with responder, game performed in fMRI
- Sharp increase in amygdala activity after rejecting the offer

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Twin study into aggression

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Coccaro
- MZ 50%
- DZ 19%

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Adoption study into aggression

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Mednick et al
- having criminal bio father increased risk of criminality
- having criminal bio and adoptive father increased risk even more

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Genetic explanation MAOA

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Stuart
- 97 men in a rehabilitation program for IPV
- Low activity variant were more violent than those with the high activity version

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Ethnological explanation fish

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Tinbergen
- During mating season, he presented male stickleback fish with various models of rival males, different shapes some with red belly
1. Sign stimulus - red belly
2. Innate releasing mechanism
3. FAP - headbutting

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Evolutionary explanation of aggression

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Shackelford et al
- Studies IPV in 107 couples
- Strong positive correlation between men’s reports of using retention strategies and women’s reports of physical violence
- DV may be a tool used by men to control their partners and reduce the chances of cuckoldry

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Frustration aggression hypothesis support

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Geen
- Got people to solve a jigsaw puzzle in one of 4 conditions under a time limit
1. Puzzle was impossible
2. Puzzle can’t be solved because of confederate asking questions to waste time
3. Confederate insults ppt when they make a mistake
4. Control
- After, ppt was required to shock the confederate when he made mistakes on a task, they can choose the voltage
- Order of shock strongest to weakest - 3,2,1,4

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Frustration aggression hypothesis counter

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Bushman
- Ppt angered by confederate and either hit a punching bag or did nothing then got to blast the confederate with white noise
- Ppts that hit the punching bag blasted white noise for longer than those who did nothing

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De-individuation support

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Dodd
- 229 psych students asked anonymously “ if you could do anything humanly possible with no consequences what would you do”
- 36% antisocial
- 26% criminal
- 9% good thing

Zimbardo prison experiment

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De-individuation counter

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Gergen
- Placed groups of 12 in a pitch black room and told to behave however they wanted
- Within half an hour 100% touched by accident, 90% touched on purpose, 80% reported feeling sexually aroused, 50% hugged, some kissed
- When repeated in a fully lit room 5% touched by accident, 0% touched on purpose, 30% reported feeling sexually aroused
- Anonymity led to abnormal behaviour but not aggressive

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Institutional aggression support

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Edens et al
- Conducted the Psychopathology Checklist - Revised in male sex offenders and how they behaved in prison over the previous two years
- Found a significant relationship between psychopathy and aggression

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Institutional aggression counter

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Kelly et al
- Conducted Structured Clinical Interview on 353 inmates to see whether having ASPD predicted misconduct in prison
- Found no relationship over a one year period

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Outline the Deprivation model

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Sykes
- Inmates are deprived of freedom, autonomy, good and services, security/safety, heterosexual intimacy
- These “pains of imprisonment” lead to frustration which may lead to aggression

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Deprivation model support

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Bierie
- 1738 staff from 114 prisons rated the prison in terms of the physical conditions and number of assaults within the prison
- Worse conditions were associated with more physical assaults

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What are the mechanisms of media influences on aggression

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Disinhibition
Desensitisation
Cognitive priming

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Disinhibition support

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Greenwood
- Positive correlation between women identifying with their favourite action hero and self-reports of aggression

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Desensitisation support

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Krahe et al
- Showed 21 ppt both violent and non violent film clips
- Ppts that generally consumed more violent media showed lower levels of physical and psychological levels of arousal and anxiety after the violent clip
- Lower arousal was associated with more aggression (measured using white noise)

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Cognitive priming support

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Murray
- Showed children violent and non violent clips in and fMRI
- Violent clips activated areas of the brain associated with emotion, attention and memory
- Supports the idea that viewing violent media leads to scripts being stored in memory for later use

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Video games and aggression support

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DeLisi
- Juvenile offenders who had history of serious physical violence
- Unstructured interview to see levels of aggression and violent video gaming
- Strong correlation between them