PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Habituation, Deindividuation, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2110
• Professor: Daniel Bentley

Document Summary

Aggression is the intention fo harm, not the consequence: but, behaviour has to have potential to harm the target, but the target would want to avoid the behaviour. Violence: more specific, involves physical force. Instrumental aggression: behaviour performed to reach a particular goal: ex. Hostile aggression: behaviour motivated by the desire to express anger and hostile feelings: the anger and desire to hurt. Frustration-aggression hypothesis: aggression derived by a desire to overcome frustration. Displaced aggression: aggressive response to frustration directed at an unrelated, more easily accessible target, ex. Kicking a chair in frustration instead of kicking the person. Aggressive cues: situational cues with an aggressive meaning, increase the accessibility of aggressive conditions. The history of these models is that they star with attempts to see why people act is aggressive behaviours (something happens to you and you want to get back at it/them)