PEDS303 Lecture Notes - Marc Savard, John Dollard, Normative Social Influence

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education and Sport
• Course: PEDS303
• Professor: John Dunn

Document Summary

Defining aggression: aggression is any form of behaviour directed toward the goal of harming or inquiring another living being who is motivated to avoid such treatment. Criteria for defining aggression: there is behaviour (ex. There is overt action; can be physical, verbal, or gestural: there is intent to inflict physical and or psychological harm/injury, the behaviour is directed towards a living organism (ex. A player slashing their stick on a post isn"t an act of aggression) Instrumental aggression: hostile aggression: primary goal (or sole purpose) is to inflict physical or psychological harm on someone, simply for the sake of hurting someone. To obtain tactical supremacy) rather than to simply inflict physical or psychological harm. In instrumental aggression we generally don"t even know who we are trying to make suffer: ex. Sometimes its hard to tell if the aggressive act is hostile or instrumental.