PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fighting Instinct, Social Learning Theory, Passive-Aggressive Behavior
11 Apr 2018
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Humans are far more aggressive than most species. Instinct theories of motivation, including motive to aggress, gradually gave way to drive. Aggression : intentional infliction of harm on another person. Reduction theories and eventually to social learning theory insulting. Does not include accidental harm or harm to inanimate objects or animals. Lorenz (stems from an inherited fighting instinct ) Sociobiology (wilson) suggests aggression among humans is adaptive and relative. Today this might be called an evolutionary perspective. Unmet need > negative drive state > efforts to reduce the drive to crowding. Example: need for food > hunger > eat something. Blocking of goal directed behavior > frustration > aggression, meditation, turn cheek, count to 10, etc. Frustration: the negative emotional state we experience when someone or something blocks our goal directed behavior. Situational factors : frustration, attack, aggressive model, aggression cues. Personality factors : irritability, attitudes about violence, values about. Hostile attributional bias violence/masculinity, skills, type a.
