Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Intentionality, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Pressure Cooking

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas

Document Summary

Norm of reciprocity the expectation that when others treat us well, we should respond in kind. Door-in-the-face technique persuader makes a large request, expecting us to say no and then make a smaller request. Foot-in-the-door technique a persuader gets you to agree to a smaller request &then makes a larger request. Lowballing a persuader gets you to commit to some behavior &then before you actually perform the behavior increases the cost of that same behavior. Any behavior that is intended to harm another person. Emotion (feelings: behaviour (actions) (can also be verbal) Survival function: animal breeding to create more aggressive species. Specific areas in the brain: hypothalamus - attack behaviours, amygdala self-defense o. Frontal lobe impulse control: no one specific area. Strong effect in animals, but much weaker effect in humans. Small decreases in aggression when treated with ssri. Psychodynamic theory (freud: aggression is instinctive ( id ) o.