Freuds Explanation Of Aggression

Question 1

Unconscious

Answer 1

Part of the brain of which contains nenories, desires, thoughts of which we are unaware of

Question 2

Id

Answer 2

Most primitive part of the personality, apart of the unconscious. A series of selfish aggressive instinctive behaviours that follows the pleasure principle- demanding instant gratification with little care to social reality

Question 3

Ego

Answer 3

Realitsic, logical aspect of the conscious personality.
Follows reality principle -interface of unrealistic+ realistic aspects of the id
Gratifies this indirectly or symbolically,e.g fantasing ab violence

Question 4

Superego

Answer 4

Moral aspect of the conscious personality, who we ought to be and ideal self

Question 5

Catharsis

Answer 5

Process of expressing aggression, releasing psychic energy.

Preventing this would cause build up of aggressins that would be destructive and expressed inwards -towards self such as self harm, or outwards - to another source such as assault

Cataharsus can b

Displacement- aggression towards one person or aggression to a weaker substitute

Observing others behave violently e.g violent movies

Question 6

Support

Answer 6

Explanation for diff types of aggression.
Hot blooded aggression, lack of rational thinking need for innnediate gratification , impulsive, shows a failure in the ID to redirect anger
Cold blooded aggression, agressuon that shows rational thinking shows a success in controlling aggression from id in pulses

Question 7

Weakness

Answer 7

Brad bushman -600 students made angry after a confederate critiqued their essay harshly
Then made to hit a punching bag and to think of the particpant, this group showed much more aggression than the control group