PSYC 3450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Fighting Instinct, School Bullying, Konrad Lorenz
9 Apr 2016
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Most of us have implicit deiniion of aggression. Freud"s thantos death insinct: hydraulic view, aggressive energy builds up and is discharged in violent destrucive behaviour. Ethologist konrad lorenz: aggression triggered by eliciing cues in environment. Behavioural learning theorists say aggression is a goal driven behaviour. Arnold buss: aggression is a response that delivers a noxious simulus to another organism, any act that gives pain or discomfort to something else is aggressive. An aggressive act is any form of behaviour designed to harm or injure another living being: even acts that are intended but not completed. If major goal is to harm or injure. Too diicult to determine whether harm was intended. Aggression is social label that we judge various acts by the meaning to us. Depends on situaional factors as well as our own beliefs. Can be discharged by vigorous work or play or insuling others ighing et.
