Psychology 2070A/B Lecture 11: Lecture #11 - aggression.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: James M Olson

Document Summary

Violence behaviour that is intended to cause extreme injury it is a form of aggression: examples include beating, shooting, or stabbing another person. Instrumental aggression hurting someone to accomplish another (non-aggressive) goal. For example if we are pinched we automatically want to punch the person. When monkeys are shocked on their tail they try to find something to be aggressive toward: animals and humans respond to fear with either flight (if possible) or fight (if necessary) If someone scares you you typically want to be aggressive towards that person. 2: gaining material and social rewards using aggression to obtain desired outcomes, challenges to dominance and or resources. In history physical strength and dominance have been associated with greater access to food and mates physical strength however is less important in humans than other species: recognition that aggression can achieve a goal. Humans sometimes engage in aggression strategically to obtain a reward.