PSYC 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: The Human Instinct, Social Learning Theory, Sympathetic Nervous System
6 Apr 2015
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Aggression: this is physical or verbal behaviour intended to cause harm. Hostile aggression: aggression that comes from anger, its goal is to injure ex. Instrumental aggression: aggression that is a means to some other end ex. What are some theories of aggression: aggression as a biological phenomenon. Rousseau blamed society not human nature for social evils. Hobbes saw society"s laws as necessary to restrain and control the human brute. Freud saw the brutish view that aggressive drive is inevitable. Freud said that human aggression comes from a self-destruction impulse (death impulse) Lorenz saw aggression as adaptive rather than self-destructive: freud and lorenz both agreed that aggressive energy is instinct. This theory fell a part because they just kept on naming any behavior an instinct ex. If sheep stayed together then they say they have the herding instinct. Instinct theory fails to account for variations in aggression, from person to person and culture to culture: ex.
