SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Social Learning Theory, The Good Feeling, Bystander (Magazine)
10 Mar 2014
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Assignment 2: monday march 3rd, due friday march 21st 5pm on avenue. Explaining altruistic and aggressive behaviour: individual-based explanations. Situational/environmental explanations: social learning theory, situational factors, social norms. Aggression is any behaviour intended to harm another person that the target person wants to avoid: heart surgery is not aggression, a bungled assassination is aggression. Altruism is helping that is intended to provide aid to someone else without expectation of any reward: the good feeling that may result is the reward. Aggression/altruism is instinctual: freud: innate urge to destroy. Sociobiology (e. wilson 1975: applies darwinian ideas to animal/human behaviour, aggressive/altruistic behaviour is selectively targeted to increase the chances that our own genes will be passed on to subsequent generations. Evaluating the evolutionary explanation of aggression and altruism. Aggressive/altruistic behaviours are learned: bandura (1961) doll study. Violence and media: television: viewing aggression. Factors: imitation, cognitive priming, legitimizing, desensitization, arousal, aggression viewing. Examples: bystander effect - kitty 1960s, social norms.
