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Cognitive Approach: Explaining Aggression In Society Flashcards

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What is Aggression?

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Behaviour intended to cause physical or physiological harm.

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What is Cognitive Priming?

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Process a stimulus faster when we have experienced it or something similar earlier.

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What are Cognitive Scripts?

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Stored info automatically retrieved that guides behaviour in a given situation.

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What is Hostile Attribution Bias?

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Tendency to interpret others’ motives as aggressive when it is actually neutral.

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What is Instrumental Aggression?

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Goal-directed aggression.

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What is a Schema?

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Mental frameworks of beliefs and expectations that influence cognitive processing

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