PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Monoamine Oxidase, Hot Sauce, Social Learning Theory
21 Nov 2012
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Physical or verbal behaviour intended to hurt someone. Hostile aggression: hurting someone else because we are angry or frustrated instrumental aggression: hurting someone else to achieve some other purpose. Ex. sports, getting what you want, violent crimes, protecting. Reverse causality (violent children choose to watch violent tv; or violent tv makes chil- dren more violent) Third variables (spurious correlations: parents are violent toward children, etc) Aggressive tendencies: more evolutionarily advantageous for survival and reproduction. Violent criminals: higher testosterone levels specific genes (monoamine oxidase) Defective gene + parental mistreatment = more violent crime. Nt that might inhibit aggressive impulses testosterone serotonin. Children learn aggressive behaviour by watching an adult behave aggressively. Children who are abused are more likely to behave in aggressive behave later on. Gender differences the tendency to physically aggress in one of the most pronounced gender differences. Evolutionary perspectives: men had to defend, hunt, etc; women were caregivers.
