Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Relational Aggression, Substance Abuse, Depressant

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Kelly Olson

Document Summary

Aggression: any form of behaviour that is intended to injure someone physically or psychologically. Hostile aggression: harm-doing that arises out of negative emotions such as anger, frustration, or hatred (i. e. insults, pushes): this is often impulsive rather than planned, and the goal is to hurt the target. Note: aggressive behaviour can be caused by several factors simultaneously. Most acts of aggression reflect some mixture of anger and a desire to achieve more distant goals. Aggression can develop really early on in social life. At a pre-school age most boys tend to exhibit physical aggression, girls tend to rely on relational aggression. It seems that aggression can sometimes be cool and lead to increased rather than decreased peer acceptance. The gam pulls together 5 rich theoretical traditions in the study of aggression: 1) biological influences on aggression, 2) frustration and aggression, 3) excitation transfer, 4) social learning theory, 5) cognitive neoassociation model, biological influences on aggression.