PSY 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Noxious Stimulus, Attribution Bias, Psychoanalytic Theory
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Aggression & antisocial behavior: behavioral definition of aggression (buss): any action that delivers noxious stimuli to another organism. By definition, accidents would be aggressive acts: intentional definition of aggression (coie & dodge): any action intended to harm/injure another organism who is motivated to avoid such treatment. If aggression is part of activity (eg. , football, play), doesn"t count. Bandura: what matters is our interpretation of acts labels direct. Instinct theories interpretation: psychoanalytic theory (freud): we build up aggression, and we have to discharge aggressive energy before it builds up too much. Discharge via constructive (ie. , work, creative activities)/antisocial ways (ie. , aggressive acts) Aggressive drives are adaptive satisfy basic needs, promote life: ethological theory (lorenz): aggression ensures survival of individual, species. Disperses population aggression motivates people to spread out, avoid fighting over resources. Promotes better genetic lines stronger males fight to win females. Humans kill each other because aggression is poorly controlled creation of weapons makes it easier: critiques.
