PSYCH 360 Lecture Notes - Passive Smoking, Dependent And Independent Variables, Observational Learning
9 Apr 2013
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Aggression, intentional behavior aimed at causing unwanted physical or psychological harm. A parent spanks her child for misbehaving. A farmer kills a chicken and prepares it for dinner. A wrestler intentionally grabs his opponent"s sore knees. A soldier kills an enemy in combat. A child teases a classmate for having braces. A woman strikes an attacker with a heavy object. A teacher lowers a student"s grade on an assignment because it was submitted late. Testosterone: inmates not in normal population of prisons tend to have higher levels of testosterone. Alcohol: reduces self-awareness and consider long-term consequences of their actions. Aggression stems from an externally induced drive to harm others: frustration-aggression hypothesis (dollard). Frustration triggers a rive to do harm, usually to the source of the frustration. Aggression is therefore cathartic or a release of built up tension: cognitive-neoassociationist model (berkowitz). Which in turn activates either a fight or flight response tendency. Aggressive cues make a fight response more likely.
