PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Revised Version, Relational Aggression, Signify
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Instrumental aggression begins with competition or the desire for some object or status possessed by another person. It harms the recipient or is intended to do so: all violent behavior is aggressive behavior but not all aggressive behavior is violent. Psychoanalytical/psychodynamic viewpoint: psychodynamic or hydraulic model since it bears a close resemblance to pressure buildup in a container. Lorenz believed that aggression is an inherited instinct of both humans and animals: the tendency to attack space violators is referred to as territoriality. Intraspecies aggression is accomplished not by actual combat but by complicated displays of force and superiority ritualized aggression. It argues that human evolutionary history provides the fundamental framework for understanding human cognition and behavior: views aggression as an adaptive behavior that has been naturally selected over the course of evolution. Frustration-aggression hypothesis: frustration does not always lead to aggression, and aggressive behavior does not always signify (cid:862)f(cid:396)ust(cid:396)atio(cid:374)(cid:863)
