Psychology 3720F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anti-Social Behaviour, Relational Aggression, World Health Organization
29 Nov 2016
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Chapter 1- de ning and measuring aggression: the word aggression derives from the latin verb aggredi , which means to approach or. A husband forcing his wife to have sex with him is seen as aggressive in the western world, but this view is not universal. This behaviourist de nition is too broad, and would consider accidental in iction of harm as an aggressive act. Example: institutionalizing a power hierarchy between men and women which leaves women largely unprotected against male sexual coercion. Chapter 1- de ning and measuring aggression different parts of the bar to record aggressive incidents. A third of all incidents involved severe physical aggression: ostrov and keating conducted a study that had trained observers watch preschoolers during free play situations and recorded their behaviour as physical aggression, verbal aggression, or relational aggression. Frequency counts of behaviours in each category were summed up to yield physical, verbal, and relational aggressiveness scores for each child.
