PSY220H5 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 Aggression
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Aggression intenional behaviour aimed at causing either physical or psychological pain. Its not just being asserive : like a salesperson. Hosile aggression aggression stemming from feelings of anger and aimed at inlicing pain. Instrumental aggression aggression as a means to some goal other than causing pain. Most terrorist acts: to get military troops to leave their country. Sigmund freud (1930) theorized that human beings are born with: Builds up and must be released or may cause illness. They raised them together, will kitens always behave agrressively: when you rear a kiten and rat pup together, the kiten doesn"t behave aggressively towards the rats throughout their lives and they aren"t aggressive towards other rats either. If it was insinctual than kitens should always behave aggressively towards rats. Rats raised without other rats, do you see aggressive behaviour. Rats will behave aggressively towards other rats even though they were reared in isolaion.
