SOC 1500 Lecture 3: SOC (lecture 3)
5 Oct 2016
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Critique: behavioural causes, social reaction (you stay in an institute, which can affect answers, as well as they answer in a way that they want the researchers to hear, traits (they have to force themselves into a category) Proposal: aggression presupposes frustration these 2 factors go together in a sense. We have to have aggression before it leads to frustration. Frustration can set the tone for aggression, but won"t necessarily set it off when we expect to succeed and don"t (expectation) When you pull a lever, a food pellet would come out. Process of shaping and the process to reward target behaviour until it turns into a desired natural response. Social learning (modelling theory in the textbook) (bandura: observation: i)aggression is a learned behaviour anyone can be aggressive or lash out. Combining biological makeup and psychological traits: people are motivated to increase their arousal levels when they"re too low, and decrease when too low.
