PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Konrad Lorenz, Cichlid, Psy
20 Dec 2016
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Intense emotional response to perception of having one"s basic boundaries violated. Aggression: aimed at expression threat and/or causing either physical or psychological pain and possibly harm. Means to some goal other than causing harm. Intended to harm someone by damaging or manipulating relationships with others. Proactive relational aggression: behaviours are a means for achieving a goal. Reactive relational aggression: behaviour that is in response to provocation, with intent to retaliate. Violence: stemming from feelings of anger and aimed at inflicting harm, form of physical assault with intent to injure or destroy another person or his/her property. Legitimizing ideology: religious, political, social, etc. Identity formation: diverging socio-cultural and religious identities. Thomas hobbes: we are brutes that can be curbed by societal laws. Sigmund freud: thanatos the death instinct, hydraulic theory unexpressed emotional build up pressure, and need to be expressed to relieve that pressure.
