PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Collectivism, Relative Deprivation, Reinforcement

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Hostile aggression inflicts harm for its own sake on another. Instrumental aggression inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value. Instinct theory of aggression describes aggression as innate biological drive, (cid:862)kill o(cid:396) (cid:271)e killed(cid:863) Genetics related to aggression, like father like son. Social learning theory (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) lea(cid:396)(cid:374)ed (cid:271)y o(cid:271)se(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:374)g o(cid:396) (cid:373)odelli(cid:374)g othe(cid:396)s" (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) as (cid:449)ell as (cid:271)y the presence of punishments and rewards, or reinforcements. Reinforcement: positive reinforcement to aggression (stealing toy, positively reinforced with reward) Frustration-aggression theory frustration always leads to the desire to behave aggressively, and that aggression is caused by frustration. Displacement tendency to aggress against others when the source of frustration is unavailable. Relative deprivation can lead to frustration, ex. Cognitive-neoassociation theory aggression caused by experiencing negative affect of any kind, which in turn evokes aggression-related thoughts, memories, feelings, and ideas. Hot temperature, unpleasant conditions (pollution, pain, crowd, noise), cues to aggression (weapon)