Psychology 3720F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noxious Stimulus, Relational Aggression, Steven Pinker
10 Mar 2018
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Images are more available so assume violence is also increasing incorrect. Torture as a common practice blinding, branding, amputation. Often carried out in public - town watched victims being tortured and screaming. Major war & political violence, pretty much all of the time. Ww2; deadliest war of all approx. Homicide rates were much higher (in na have been steep decline since 1990) It was considered acceptable practice to beat ones wife & children. Antisocial behaviour: behaviour that violates social norms of appropriate conduct. Includes behaviours not intended to directly harm others; lying, cheating, vandalism, stealing. Coercion: an action taken w the intention of imposing harm on another by forcing compliance. Behaviourist: buss (1961) - a response that delivers noxious stimuli to another organism. Too broad and too narrow - does not discuss intent & excludes aggression that isn"t delivered. Too broad bc includes forms of behaviours such as accidental in iction of harm.
