Exam 3 Part 2 Flashcards
Agression
Aggression
Behaviour intended to harm someone
Reactive: When it comes from a place of emotions
Proactive: Instrumental Hurting to achieve some goals
catharsis
A reduction of the motive to aggress that is said to result from any imagined, observed, or actual act of aggression
Cultivation
The process by which the mass media (particularly television) construct a version of social reality for the public. (p.)
cycle of family violence
The transmission of domestic violence across generation
desensitization
Reduction in emotion-related physiological reactivity in response to a stimulus
displacement
Aggressing against a substitute target because aggressive acts against the source of the frustration are inhibited by fear or lack of access
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
The idea that frustration always elicits the motive to aggress, and that all aggression is caused by frustration
When can not reach goal, you are angry, increase motive
hostile attribution bias
The tendency to perceive hostile intent in others
Mitigating information
Information about a person’s situation indicating that he or she should not be held fully responsible for aggressive actions.
social learning theory
The theory that behaviour is learned through the observation of others as well as through the direct experience of rewards and punishments
Weapons effect
The tendency of weapons to increase the likelihood of aggression by their mere presence
Group Differences
Men: More Physical
Women: Indirect
Individualistic culture: 1:1
Collective: Group violence
Individual difference in aggression
Neurotic +++
Agreeableness
Self-Centered Peeps
Is aggression Adaptive?
Competition, survival, yes. But at the same time you might get killed first. We are wired to have the potential to be. But we can transcend
Biology of agression, describe
Brain, Amygdyle: Fear and aggression
Prefrontal Cortex, regulate
Low serotonine: more impulsive aggression
Testoterone: More violence
Alcohol: More violence
Relative deprivation
Perception you have less than you deserve, income inequality, unfairness: ++ aggression
Moral Values and Principles / Cultural
If your environment support aggression, more likely to create it of course
Learning - Operant conditionning
If aggression is rewarded (Sports) Than ++
Social Learning theory
Doll study
Aversive environmental stimuli
Person in:
Pain
HEAT
Crowds
Leads to the rat study
Crowded space, rat protects, destructive behaviour fights between males
Moderating factor before fighting back on direct attack
Their physical size
Perception of intention
Level of damage (cost)
Aggressive cues : Weapons effect
If seeing a weapon = more aggression ( study says you’ll give more shock if weapons is in the room) Brain association
Social Media and aggression
Anonymous
Removed from others (physical)
Deindividualisation (anonymous)
Hard to feel empathy when not seeing others
influence of video games and tv on aggression
Very minimal - .1 or .2
Does change in cognition and how you feel
BUT
depends on the person
depend on the game
Contact; are you isolated
Mental health
