PSY 3304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Noxious Stimulus, Collectivism, Exosphere

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3304
• Professor: Kareem Johnson

Document Summary

Aggression is any response that delivers a noxious stimuli to another organism. Any response that is intended to deliver a noxious stimulus to another organism. Any act meant to cause physical or psychological pain. Goal is to inflict pain or harm. Cause pain or harm to achieve another goals. Aggression is a response to another person"s aggression. Most studies have to use this to study aggression. May use force to achieve goals (instrumental) Use force to get things from other children or to get them back. May still use force to get things from other children. But also begin using non aggressive methods. Non aggressive methods to resolve conflicts learned at. More likely to have unfocused aggressive (temper tantrums) But may still react aggressively to harm that wasn"t intentionally caused. More gender differences of display of aggression. Superego acts to suppress or redirect aggressive impulses. If not properly directed, results in violent behavior.