final 4-7 Flashcards
what is the difference between antisocial behavior and aggression?
- Antisocial: Disruptive, hostile, or aggressive behaviours that violates social norms or rules and that harms or takes advantage of others.
- Aggression: Behaviour aimed at physically or emotionally harming or injuring others
what are the form of agression? (organigramme)
- Reactive aggresion: reacting in anger and frustration. linked to hostile attribution bias.
a. Instrumental agression:
b. Relational agression
- Proactive aggression: not provoked ‘I’ll get you before you get me’. More likely to see in antisocial individuals.
a. Instrumental aggression
b. Relational aggression:
what are verbal aggression? verbal and instrumental? relational?
Intrumental: meant to achieve a goal.
Verbal: Using words to inflict pain.
Physical: inflicting physical damage or discomfort on another person.
Relational: meant to cause harm within relationships
what are direct and indirect exemple of aggression? (physical, vebal, relational)
Physical:
-direct: Pushing, hitting, kicking, shoving
-indirect: Destruction of property, using others to hurt an individual
Verbal:
-direct: Insulting, putting down, name-calling, teasing
-indirect:Gossiping, urging others to say mean things
Relational:
-direct:Excluding, threatening to stop liking the person
-indirect: Spreading rumours/lies, exposing secrets, ignoring or betraying the person, building alliances to exclude the person
lifespan agression and antisocial behavior
aggression I 14-16
what about the stability of aggression across lifespan?
Aggression tends to be fairly stable:Maintaining same mean level.
Children who are rated as being aggressive in childhood tend to be rated as aggressive in adolescence
what are the effects of when agression starts?
Early starters 🡪 show aggression early in development and remain aggressive
Greatest risk for long-term negative outcomes
Late starters 🡪 adolescent-onset aggressive youth
Engage in delinquency during teen years but not in adulthood
what are the effect of gender?
Boys tend to be more physically aggressive than girls 🡪 childhood and adolescence
—Even the most aggressive girls are not as aggressive as the most aggressive boy
5x more likely for boys to be arrested for violent crimes
discuss about the boys and aggression?
Toddlerhood: Boys more likely than girls to instigate and be involved in:
-Direct physical aggression
-Overt verbal attacks
Boys are more likely than girls to:
-Demonstrate nonphysical antisocial behaviour
-Violate the rights of others (2x more than girls)
–Aggressive boys 🡪 Aggressive men
More likely to commit violent offenses
discuss girls and agression?
Girls are more likely than boys to:
-Disapprove of aggression
-More likely to use verbal objection and negotiation to deescalate a conflict.
Toddlerhood:Excluding and ignoring
Childhood: Excluding and damaging others’ reputation
Middle school: Indirect methods of social ostracization
Adolescence: Exclusion from social cliques to maintain own status
Long-term –
Aggressive girls 🡪 Aggressive women
More likely to commit non-violent offenses
what about causes of aggression? Alone name the 4 concepts
Key temr: transactional development
- Biological
- Environmental
- Sociocultural
- Sociocognitive
biological factor for aggression? (genetic, neurobiological and temperament, hormones, prenatal env., Diathesis-Stress Model
)
Genetic
-Moderate association between genetics and antisocial behaviour
-More heritable in early starters than late starters
Neurobiological
-Neurotransmitters 🡪 chemicals in body that facilitate or inhibit the transmission of neural impulses in the central nervous system
-Serotonin: Affects attention and emotional states. Deficits in serotonin 🡪 linked to impulsive behaviour and aggression
-Monoamine oxidase (MAO)
Temperament:
-Infants can be born with irritable, irregular, and difficult temperaments
-Often linked to lack of self-control
-Links to fearfulness
Hormones:
1. Testosterone: Typically more testosterone 🡪 more aggression
- However…Success in conflict 🡪 higher testosterone
Prenatal Env.
Exposure to certain teratogens can increase risk of aggressive behaviour
Diathesis-Stress Model
positive outcome + positive env./exp. = resilience
Agression- role of social factors (only name 5 concepts)
Family
Peers
Neighbourhood,
Culture
Media
Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Model
Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Model
role of caregiver and agression (punishment, monitoring, conflict)
Punishment:
-Harsh but not physical
-Physical punishment
-Role of genetics
Monitoring:
-supervision of peer group
-‘snowball’ effect
Conflict:
-exposure to conflict
-responsiveness
what are the impact of neighbourhood and aggression?
Impacts of socioeconomic status
–Adults at more stress 🡪 impact on youth
Exposure to violence
–One instance of exposure is often enough
role of culture and aggression?
-can depend on country
-can depend on cultural values
what are the benefits of media and aggresison?negative?
Positive:
Educational media
Connection
Self-identification
Creativity
Connectedness
Creativity
New encounters
Communication
Negative
Exposure to:
-Violence
-Pornography
-Social media
Sharing personal info
Social comparison
Bullying
Developmental outcomes:
-Academics
-Screen time
what are the theories of media infliuence and use? (3 concepts)
- Cutivation theory: Media shapes youths’ interests, motives, and beliefs about the world
- Use and Gratification approach: Youth choose the media that they are exposed to.
Youth choose their media exposure. Youth interpret the media in a way that affects impact - Media Pratice Model
Remember!
Correlation ≠ Causation
the role of violence in media?
Television, video games, chat rooms…
Increase in aggression (maybe) through:
Modelling
Aggression activation
Arousal
Desensitization
what can parents do?
Be kind.
Think twice before hitting ‘enter’
Follow the ‘WWGS’ role.
Use privacy setting
Don’t friend strangers.
agression II slide3
agression II slide3
Why do peers matter so much? Deliquency
Birds of a feather effect
Delinquency:
Gangs 🡪 antisocial peer groups
Shared name
Symbols
At risk for:
Psychological distress
Impulsivity
Exposure to violence
Victimization
How do we stop delinquency?
What doesn’t work:
Segregation
Group talk
Non-violent strategies
Social Information Processing (Crick & Dodge, 1994)
Step One: Encoding
What do I see?
Aggressive children 🡪 lack of full awareness of cues
Selective attention
Not entirely conscious
Step Two: Interpretation
What do I think is the reason behind what I see?
Accidental and harmless
Intentional and threatening
Hostile attribution bias (expectancy confirmation) -‘Searching’ for evidence of hostile intent in others. Self-fulfilling prophecy risk
What predicts hostile attribution bias?
Early harsh parenting
Physical abuse
The role of the other person:
Past history
Friend vs. foe
Step Three: Review of Behavioural Response
How can I possibly react?
Aggressive children
Generate fewer responses
Tend to be lower quality responses
Step Four: Selection of Behavioural Response
Which behavioural response do I choose?
-Consequences
-Moral responsibility
-Potential of acceptance rejection
Aggressive children:
-Less likely to consider consequences
-Tends to weigh towards aggressive action
Step Five: Behavioural Enactment
-Put selected action into action
-Aggressive children
–Tend to be less competent at enacting and role-playing non-aggressive responses
self-fulling prophecy
aggression II, slide 20-21
how do bullies act? girl vs bors
Use direct and indirect methods of aggression
Girls 🡪 relational
Boys 🡪 physical
what is the selection of victims?
Victims chosen for:
-Lack of support and defense from others
-More internalizing symptoms
-Provocative aggression