PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rodney Dangerfield, Eldridge Cleaver, Golda Meir
7 Mar 2017
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EXAM #3 NOTES
MON 10/10:
• Omar talked to us
• England v. Portugal world cup 2006
o England cant beat Portugal in PKs
• All of the anxiety is in your head
• Physical and mental anxiety is showing through their body language
• When teaching athletes:
o Know your number
▪ 1-10
• 1: going to sleep
▪ IZOF(?) theory: everyone has their own ideal number
▪ Try to get the athlete into their zone as fast as possible
• Called the Flow state
o Essentially in the zone
▪ Thats where your number is
o We use music to get here
▪ BPM
o Pre/during/post performance routines:
▪ You have a routine for each, even if you dont realize it
▪ Stick to it, it helps
o Self talk
▪ RSR technique
• Recognize by being self aware
• Stop, literally say stop
• Replace the bad w a good alternative
o Body language
▪ Power poses
• performer-open, wide
• presidential-sat up, square
• CEO
• Casual/relaxed
• TALKED ABOUT SUPERMAN POSE FROM GREYS!!!!!!
o Breathing
▪ Diaphragramic breathing
• to get more air to our belly
• helps you be more relaxed bc HR is dec
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WED 10/12:
Famous people:
• OJ SIMPSON
o Fallen hero
• GOLDA MEIR
o 1898-1978
o Israeli Prime Minister
• GERMAN PROVERB
o An army of cripples, an army of mourners, an army of thieves
• GEORGE ORWILL
o 1903-1950
• LEWIS LAPHAM
o 1935-?
• ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
o Author of Soul on Ice
• RODNEY DANGERFIELD
• MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Gun violence:
• In America:
o 38,000 suicides annually, 50% by firearms
o 13,000 murders annually, 9,000 by firearms
o 11 assassination attempts on presidents
murder by country comparisons:
• US: 13,000—300million people
• Germany: 690—300million people
• Norway: 29
• Switzerland: 52
• France: 682
Steps in aggression:
o Starts w delivery of aversive/negative/unwanted stim
o Intent to do arm
o harm is critical to definition
o unwilling victim
o expectancy of success
sport assertion/aggression:
o sport assertion
o no intent to harm
o use of legitimate force
o unusual expenditure of energy and force
o instrumental aggression
o intent to do harm
o goal is to win
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o no anger
o hostile aggression
o intent of harm
o goal is to harm
▪ winning is coincidental
o anger present
Dimensions of Aggression:
• Prosocial—antisocial
• Provoked—unprovoked
• Direct—Indirect
• Physical—Verbal
• Adaptive—Maladaptive
• Hostile—Instrumental
Theories of Aggression:
• genetic (XYY)
• hormonal
o testosterone
• Neurological
o Whitman case/tumor
▪ Guy who killed everyone from UT tower
• Darwinian
o Survival of the fittest
• Cathartic
o Instinct/frustration—aggression
o Being able to express aggression on football field should diminish
aggression bc you can release aggression in the wholesome way
• Social Learning
o Vicarious reinforcement
o Modeling
o Expressing aggression is reinforcing, therefore, increasing the
behavior
▪ Expressing aggression is going to create more aggression
Eron Aggression Study
• Study the roots of aggression
• 22yr old longitudinal study
• 600 3rd graders, New York
• peer nominations for the study
• who pushes/shoves children? who will never fight even if picked on?
• did parent interviews
• salient correlations of interview w parents
o less nurturing, more aggression
o more punished for aggression, more aggression
o less child identifies w parents, the more aggression
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Document Summary
In america: 38,000 suicides annually, 50% by firearms, 13,000 murders annually, 9,000 by firearms, 11 assassination attempts on presidents murder by country comparisons, us: 13,000 300million people, germany: 690 300million people, norway: 29, switzerland: 52, france: 682. Dimensions of aggression: prosocial antisocial, provoked unprovoked, direct indirect, physical verbal, adaptive maladaptive, hostile instrumental. History of psychological assessment: 2200 bc chinese, 1905 binet-simon, 1938 buros mmy, 1942 mmpi, validity. Impression management manipulate the way you answer so you give a specific impression: still pretty unconscious better, its subconscious, conservative response style, leniency, student evaluations. Intended for use on mental patients: scales of mmpi, hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviation, masculity-feminity, paranoia, psychastenia, schizophrenia, hypomania, social introversion, lie scale. Missed a handout in class today of poms! Profile of mood states (poms: lorr, mcnair & droppleman 1971, designed to quantify progress in counseling & psychotherapy, adapted to sports by william morgan w olympic athletes in 1972 & 1976.
