CC210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Persecutory Delusion, Booby Trap, Gossip
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Cc 210 psychology of crime (nov. 16th 18th) Hostile (reactive) aggression: aggression that occurs in response to anger-inducing conditions, real or perceived insults, physical attacks. Instrumental aggression: aggression in response to competition or desire for some object or status possessed by another person. Definition of aggression: behaviour perpetrated or attempted with the intention of harming another individual physically or psychologically, or to destroy an object, behaviour may not necessarily qualify as criminal. Definition of violence: destructive physical aggression intentionally directed at harming other persons or objects. Always harms the victim, or is intended to do so. Aggressive behaviour can vary in which of the following ways: aggression can be verbal, aggression may take direct forms, aggression can be passive, both b and c, all of the above. Early instinct theory: specific forms of behaviour (e. g. , aggression) stem from innate tendencies that are universal among a given species.
