PSYC 2040 Study Guide - Relational Aggression, Attribution Bias, Narcissism
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Chapter 10: aggression- its nature, cause, and control. Aggression: behavior directed toward the goal of harming another living being who is motivated to avoid such treatment. Hostile aggression: walking up to someone and punching them in the face: more likely males to display this. Relational aggression: going at peoples relationships: example: gossip, rumors, drama, head games, more likely to be females. Instrumental aggression: you aggress to obtain something: jack has the ball, jill wants it. She didn"t want to hit him, she just wanted the ball: sports are instrumental aggression, males and females equally likely to express. Retaliatory expression: retaliating against someone you perceived to have harmed you: just has to be perceived, not actually done, middle and high school for males. If you don"t retaliate, they will keep on picking at you. Drive theories: aggression stems from external conditions that arouse the motive to harm or injure others.
