Agression and Obedience Flashcards
Explain Freuds psychodynamic theory to aggression.
Life and death instinct is the cause of aggression.
Explain the evolutionary approach to aggression.
Survival of genes, is beneficial, provides protection.
What is one limitation of biological (psychodynamic and evolutionary) theories of aggression?
No account of social factors.
What is the frustration-aggression theory and what is it’s limitation?
Aggression is underpinned by a frustrating event. Limitation is it’s seen as too simple.
What is the cathartic hypothesis and what is the evidence?
The notion that aggression reduces pent-up feelings of anger and frustration, which restores emotional balance. Evidence = Bushman (1999) found aggression levels were higher after students took part in a punch bag exercise.
What is the cognitive neoassocaitionalist model?
Aggression is triggered by cues in the environment.
What is excitation-transfer model?
Arousal from one situation can transfer to another and cause aggression.
How does operant conditioning explain how people learn to be aggressive?
Through a stimulus-response model.
What is the agentic state?
Believing that as someone is an authority figure, when following their orders, you are acting on their behalf and therefore take no responsibility.
