Lecture 2 - Antisocial Behaviours: Strategies to Reduct Aggression and Violence Flashcards
What are the aims of aggressive behaviour interventions?
To reduce the aggressive script reinforcers while promoting non-violent scripts.
What are biological interventions? Are they effective?
Evidence suggests that criminals have lower inhibition, but this is relational data. Medication used to boost serotonin levels are okay, but they are non-specific and do not stop aggression from being triggered environmentally.
What are self-control training strategies? What do they suggest about reducing aggression?
High trait-aggressiveness individuals were tasked with using their non-dominant hand for a few hours everyday for a week (effortful behaviour). They then did a presentation with negative feedback. Those in the SCT condition had reduced aggression and less anger than the control.
Effortful control can reduce behaviour.
What are the effects of prosocial video games?
After provocation, those who play prosocial video games behaved less aggressively (less retaliation with white noise) than the neutral game players. But all three groups had similar arousal -> more control in prosocial?
Primed prosocial scripts, which may counteract violent scripts.
What are the three benefits of playing video games?
Cognitive effects: improved spatial skills and more accurate attention allocation.
Motivational effects: persistence in the face of failure (but not always).
Social benefits: MMOs promote social skills, e.g. cooperation.
What are Goldstein’s three negative exposure effects of witnessing violence on TV and online in children? How can these effects be reduced?
- Aggression effect: increased copycating and self-directed violence.
- Victim effect: increased fearfulness and mistrust.
- Bystander effect: increased desensitiation and callousness.
- Explaining that it’s fake, undesirable, etc. decrease these effects.
How are school-based education strategies implemented? What are the four steps?
Better to be earlier in school, done by a teacher, and addresses the whole school.
- Cue attention and interpretation: learn what triggers behaviour.
- Script search and retrieval: improve prosocial scripts.
- Script evaluation: is it useful in this situation?
- Evaluation/enviromental response: evaluate the behaviour of those around you.
