Chapter 10 Flashcards
Defined as intentional and repeated aggression (bullying, harassing, or
threatening someone) via email, texts, social
networking sites, and other electronic media
Cyberbullying
Physical or verbal behavior intended to
cause harm.
Aggression
2 types of aggression
Physical aggression
Social aggression
Hurting someone else’s body.
Physical aggression
Hurting someone else’s feelings or
threatening their relationships.
Social aggression
Social aggression is sometimes called?
Relational aggression.
Bullying researchers Dan Olweus and Kyrre
Breivik (2013) describe the consequences of
bullying as?
“the opposite of well-being.”
Aggression that springs from anger; its goal is to injure.
Hostile Aggression
Aggression that aims to injure, but only as a means to some other end.
Instrumental Aggression
Contended that aggressive energy will accumulate from within, like water accumulating behind a dam.
Instinct view
Primitive death urge
“death instinct”
Innate, unlearned, and universal behavior
pattern exhibited by all members of a
species.
Instinctive behavior
Acts like an emergency brake on deeper brain areas involved in aggressive behavior
Prefrontal cortex
Specific gene linked to aggression; some
even call it the “warrior gene” or the
“violence Gene”.
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BIOCHEMICAL INFLUENCES (3)
Alcohol
Testosterone
Poor diet
According to the second view, this causes anger and hostility; blocking of goal-directed behavior.
Frustration
Theory that frustration triggers a readiness to aggress.
Frustration-aggression theory
Redirection of aggression to a target other than the source of the frustration.
Displacement