SOCPSY 1Z03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Egotism, Sociobiology, Steven Pinker

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Glavin

Document Summary

Aggression: any behaviour intended to harm another person that the target person wants to avoid. Altruism: helping that is intended to provide aid to someone else without expectaion of any reward. The good feeling that may result is the reward. Freud: we have an innate urge to destroy. Aggressive/altruisic behaviour is selecively targeted to increase the chances that our own genes will be passed on to subsequent generaions. Many children learn aggressive behaviour from their parents. Violence and media: television: viewing -> aggression. Factors: imitaion, cogniive priming, legiimizaion, desensiizaion, arousal, aggression -> viewing. Bystander efect: refers to the fact that the greater the number of bystanders in an emergency, the less likely any one bystander will help: noiceability, interpretaion, difusion of responsibility. Paricipant hears one of the students having a seizure how quickly will they respond. Norms shape behaviour: example: decision to intervene/help. Shortland & straw (1976) experiment: paricipants witness ight between man and women, two condiions (husband/wife; strangers)