SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Steven Pinker, Middle Ages

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Jeff Racine

Document Summary

Aggression: any behaviour intended to harm another person that the target person wants to avoid. Altruism: helping someone without reward to yourself and sometimes even negative consequences for you. Freud thought we have an innate urge to destroy. Sociobiology: applies darwinian ideas to animal/human behaviour ex. Many children learn aggressive behaviour from their parents. Boys who experienced harsh parenting practices at ages 10-12 were more likely to be involved in violent dating relationships at age 16. Altruism: clary & miller - parental in uences on future child volunteering. Moderate positive correlation between television viewing and aggressive behaviour causal order: viewing leads to aggression. Students participated in a discussion over intercom. Participants hears one of the students having a seizure. Tested to see how quickly subject would respond. Bystander effect: greater number of bystanders = less likely a single bystander will help. Social norms: social responsibility norm: we should help others that are dependant on us.