SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Good Feeling, Hummus, Longitudinal Study

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Glavin

Document Summary

Aggression is any behaviour intended to harm another person that the target person wants to avoid. Altruism is helping that is intended to provide aid to someone else without expectation of any reward. The good feeling that may result is the reward. Freud: we have an innate urge to destroy. Aggressive/altruistic behaviour is selectively targeted to increase the chances that our own genes will be passed on to subsequent generations (i) evaluating the evolutionary explanation. Many children learn aggressive behaviour from their parents. Longitudinal study of 717 boys found that boys who experienced harsh parenting practices at ages 10-12 were more likely to be involved in violent dating relationships at age 15 violent dating relationships at age 15. Clary & miller (1968): parental influences on future child volunteering. Research studies on violence and media consistently report moderate positive correlations between television viewing and aggressive behaviour. Participant hears one of the students having seizure.