PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hot Sauce, White Noise, Homicide

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 260
• Professor: Lara Aknin

Document Summary

Aggression: intentional behaviour done to cause physical or emotional pain to another person: hostile aggression o. Inflicting mental or psychological pain on someone is the goal. Bowling for columbine: michael moore doc about the school shooting, many reasons for why it happened. Situational causes of hostile aggression: modeling good behaviour can lead to good outcomes as children often mimic behaviours displayed by parents. Seeing aggressive behaviour leads others to copy, especially when behaviour is reinforced. Societies reward aggressive behaviour, positively reinforced: sports (rough players get playing time, crowds cheer for fights), office (cut throat behaviour earns a raise, become leaders) o. Nice guys finish last suggests aggressive behaviour is what is rewarded and gets you to the top. Albert bandura - social learning theory: we learn behaviour (aggression) by observing and imitating others: bobo doll experiment: kids came to lab and were randomly assigned to conditions.