PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Relational Aggression, Distilled Beverage, Nonviolent Video Game
10 Apr 2014
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Causes of aggression: aggression: intentional action aimed at doing harm or causing harm to another person who wants to avoid harm. Hostile (emotional) aggression: stem from feelings of anger, aimed at inflicting pain. Instrumental aggression: a means to some goal other than causing pain (example terrorist) Relational aggression behavior intended to damage another person"s peer relationships and social status. Its indirect and psychological harm: gender and types of aggression observed study of british schoolchildren. Freud death vs. life instinct: social learning theory we learn from others in our social environment. New toys available aggressive and nonaggressive. The children very closely copied the adult"s behavior: frustration-aggression theory frustration leads to aggression. Iv: anger participants were made angry vs. not angry. Iv: cues left in a room with gun vs. badminton racket vs. nothing. Participants allowed to administer shocks to other participants. Dv: angry participants gave more shocks to other when gun was present than with racket or no object.
