SOP-3004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala, Deindividuation
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Aggression: physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone: hostile: springs from anger with the direct goal to injure, instrumental: injury is the means to another goal, discuss evidence that aggression is a biological phenomenon. Include a description of proposed evolutionary, neurological, genetic, and biochemical influences. Neurological perspective: aggression is triggered when deeper brain areas, amygdala, are triggers. The prefrontal cortex controls the emotions of the amygdala and more aggressive people have a less developed prefrontal cortex. Genetic perspective: ties between genes and aggression. Biochemical perspective: alcohol, testosterone, bad diet, behavior frustration with aggression: explain the frustration-aggression theory, as well as the later revisions to this theory. Frustration is anything that blocks us from achieving a goal and we displace our. Social learning theory: we learn social behavior through observation and imitation and then by being rewarded and punished: describe the influence that aversive events, arousal, and aggressive cues can have on aggressive behaviors.
