PS271 Chapter 16: Chapter 16
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Model begins with a social encounter with the potential for triggering aggression. Psychologists looking at the process from a cognitive perspective aruge that these personal and situations factors are important only to the extent that they are tied to and activate aggression-relation thoughts and emotions. Aggressive behaviour scripts: potential patterns of behaviour that have been learned by watching aggressive, seeing someone punching someone on tv models. This cognitive analysis helps us understand why violent movies and television programs sometimes lead to aggression. Aggressive cognitions not only trigger aggressive behaviour scripts, they also affect the way we interpret situations. Angry, hostile aggression in response to frustration or provocation. These are the boys who react to a little teasing by threating to beat up the teaser and who turn an accidental bump in the hallway into a fist fight.
