PSY 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Explanatory Style
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Includes many of the factors related to aggression. Begins with social encounter that has the potential for triggering aggression. How we respond to the event depends first on the kind of person we are and the kind of situation we are in. Aggression scripts - represent ways to act that we have learned and sometimes practiced. Reactive aggression - focuses on the angry and aggressive way some boys respond to even mild frustrations or provocations. Aggressive boys had chronically accessible hostile thoughts that led them to interpret even harmless acts as threatening. Research suggests men and women do not differ in their general ability to memorize and recall information. Investigators often find differences in what men and women remember. Investigators identify two differences in the way men and women organize information in memory: Genders differ in the extent to which self-relevant information is associated with emotions.
