PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Habituation, Social Learning Theory

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Definition: physical or verbal behavior that is intended to hurt another person. A child punches a large plastic doll yes it is aggression. A murderer is executed in the electric chair after being sentenced to death it is in between. A doctor gives a shot to a child no it is not aggression. A baseball pit(cid:272)her i(cid:374)te(cid:374)tio(cid:374)ally thro(cid:449) a pit(cid:272)h (cid:374)ear a (cid:271)atter(cid:859)s head yes it is aggression. A tea(cid:272)her lo(cid:449)ers a stude(cid:374)t(cid:859)s grade o(cid:374) a paper (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it (cid:449)as su(cid:271)(cid:373)itted late not aggression. A woman who feels that her ex-boyfriend is still in love with her says hurtful things to him to get him to move on with his life. A man hurls insults at a politician whose views he disagrees with. Instrumental aggression: aggression that is a means to some other end. Hostile aggression: aggression that is driven by anger and performed as an end in itself. Some societies are nonviolent: e. g. , amish and mennonites, e. g. , inuit.

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