KP181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Moral Reasoning, Team Unity
28 Mar 2016
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Behaviour that intends to destroy properly or injure another person, or is grounded in a disregard for self and others. Involves: behaviour, intent to harm or injure, verbal or physical, directed towards living organism? (aggression towards inanimate object??) Why do people engage in aggressive acts? (theories of aggression) Bandura: moral reasoning: correlation between maturity and acts of aggression, revised frustration-aggression: f increased arousal socially learned cues (slc) aggression. 3 categories/characteristics of aggression: hostile/reactive aggression: intent to harm, goal to harm, anger, assertive aggression: no intent to harm, legitimate force, unusual effort and energy expenditure. Instrumental aggression: intent to harm, goal to win, no anger. What is the perceived goal of the act. Physical assault based on a total disregard for the well-being of self or others. Intimidation: verbal or physical behaviours that threaten violence or coercion for the purpose of controlling others against their wishes of interests.
