PSY 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Attribution Bias

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 124
• Professor: David Day

Document Summary

Golden 11 & johnson 13 dressed in camouflage, stole guns & van, committed shooting at westside middle school, killed 5. P. 407 men with wider faces more prone to aggression than men with longer faces (small-man syndrome) Asocial: social isolation, not doing anything with anyone. A behaviour anger & hostility are considered the emotions and attitudes underlying aggression but not necessarily connected. You can have anger without aggression (healthy) and aggression without anger: used in many contexts: salesperson, driver, virus, act. Assertive behaviour = healthy & appropriate response (cid:894)(cid:858)i feel(cid:859) state(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts(cid:895) Aggressive behaviour = unhealthy & inappropriate response: any behaviour intended to harm another person who does not want to be harmed. Violence is usually defined as aggression with the goal of extreme harm, including injury or death: all violence is aggression but not all aggression is violence, death threat could be seen as a type of assault. Instrumental/cold/proactive: means to another end positively reinforced.