PSYC 241 Study Guide - Attribution Bias, Relational Aggression, Type A And Type B Personality Theory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 241
• Professor: Roderick C L Lindsay

Document Summary

Aggression aimed at harming someone for personal gain, attention, or self-defence. Often impulsive, heat of the moment, a product of jealousy or rage. May be calm, cool, and calculated revenge. Anger: strong feelings of displeasure in response to a perceived injury. Hostility: negative, antagonist attitude toward another person or group. People can be angry + regard them with hostility without ever trying to harm them. Aggression can occur without anger or hostility (hit men) Instrumental aggression: harm is inflicted as a mean to a desired end. Proactive aggression: if the aggressor believes there is an easier way to obtain the goal, the aggression will not occur. Reactive aggression: harm inflicted for its own sake. Emotional aggression: the means and the end coincide. Instrumental and emotional aggression may not be distinct categories, but on a continuum. Rates of murder, rape, and assault in the americas about double the world averages. Rate of violent crime: uk > us.