Psychology 3720F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Virtual Reality, Hot Sauce, Social Exclusion
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Describe how aggressive cues are associated with aggressive behaviour: angered p acted more aggressively twds source of provocation. When firearm was present in lab room than in presence of badminton. This was found in comparison of susceptibility of hunters and non hunters to weapons as ag cues. Hunters viewed handguns with harming other human beings where as non hunters viewed both shotguns, long range rifles, and hand guns to be associated with aggression. Critical dependent variable: reaction time when reading out ag and anti ag target words. Higher difference scores indicate shorter response time (better cog accessibility) of ag compared w/ anti-ag words. Intensity of noise blast set by p constituted measure of ag behaviour. Unexpectedly: non hunters showed strong weapons effect following presentation of hunting gun. Aggressive meaning of situational cue isn"t inherent property of stimulus itself (assigned on perceiver"s pre-existing knowledge structures and past behavioural experience)