PSYC 3402 Chapter Notes - Winter 2018 Chapter 8 - Covariance, Internal validity, Statistical conclusion validity

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3402
• Professor: Shelley Brown

Document Summary

Chapter 8 violent offending: general violence and. Reactive violence impulsive reaction to some real or perceived provocation or threat (affective, impulsive, hostile) Instrumental violence premeditated and aimed at achieving some secondary goal (predatory, premeditated, proactive) Fox and levin 5 categories of motivation of mass and serial murders: power, revenge, loyalty, terror, and profit. Hate crimes not always violent, but are motivated by hostility towards the victim"s race, language, religion, sexuality, etc. Aboriginal, going out in the evening, living in a city. As they get older the cost of aggressive behaviour becomes more costly: disadvantaged men neurodevelopmental insults (low iq) Methodology: internal validity to what extent do the results reflect a causal relationship. Factors associated with violence: normalization of violence, beat or be beaten, i get out of control, relationship between childhood physical abuse and violent behaviour, depleted self control causes greater aggressive behaviour.