PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Memphis, Tennessee, Personality Disorder
19 Apr 2018
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Accidentally running over squirrel = not aggressive. Purposefully running over squirrel = act of aggression. Hostile aggression: aggression with the intention of inflicting physical or. I. e. fistfight, shouting match psychological pain or injury on another. Instrumental aggression: an aggressive behavior intended to achieve a goal. Physical aggression: physical contact with another person such as hitting or slapping that is intended to harm. Social aggression: an attempt to hurt another by damaging another"s social relationships through rejecting, ostracizing, or spreading rumors photo retrieved from revel pearson textbook - figure 11. 9. Heat - extreme heat increases aggressive impulses and rate of criminal activity. Frustration-aggression hypothesis: the idea that people aggress when they are prevented from reaching their goals. Psychological factors threatened-egotism theory: a theory of aggression stating that violence is related to highly favorable view of the self, combined with a threat to the ego theory supported by finding that egotistical/narcissistic people are most aggressive.
