SOP 3004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Transition Economy, Subsistence Economy, Social Learning Theory
28 Jul 2016
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Nature vs nurture rats never seeing another rat, then exposed to one will attack rat with same posturing as rats raised with other rats have. suggests genetic basis of aggressive behavior. Male stickleback fish, will attack males of other species, or female stickelbacks if its natural enemy ( other male stickelbacks) is not present. Berkowtiz: one psychological approach says that we should be careful of generalizing from animals to humans. humans not innaetely aggressive. Why? primitive tribes exist that have no word for aggression. This means our aggression is a result of the situation, of context, not of our own nature. Behavior can be learned in one of 2 ways. Kids watch adults interact with bobo doll. They hit it most when adult hit it and rewarded. Hit least when adults dont hit at all. Television and aggression. anecdotal and research evidence suggests we can learn aggression from tv.
