PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Attribution Bias, Relational Aggression, Reinforcement
8 Dec 2011
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An aggressive act is any form of behaviour designed to harm or injure a living being who is motivated to avoid such treatment. Hostile aggression (harm or injure a victim) and instrumental aggression (gain access to objects, space or privileges) Early conflicts need not be training grounds for aggression and can even be adaptive, serving as a context where infants, toddlers and preschool children can learn to negotiate and to achieve their aims. Japanese preschoolers are less angered by interpersonal conflicts and less likely to respond aggressively than american children. Some level of physical aggression is normal early in toddlerhood but rare by middle childhood. Elementary school children are reluctant to condemn retaliatory aggression (fighting back) as a normal response to provocation. Parents play rougher with boys than with girls and react more negatively to the aggressive behaviours of daughters than to those of sons.
