[PSYC 240] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 31 pages long Study Guide!
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2 types: hostile- behaviour motivated by anger. Aim to harm others physically or emotionally to another individual: instrumental- intend harm for other reason than hostility. Factors in aggression: temperature: civil conflict in tropical countries is higher when temperatures are hotter. Crimes are more likely to happen in summer rather than the other 3 months. Misattribution of arousal: where we mistake the cause of our arousal. heat has impact on our bodies. We become more easily agitated when we"re hot because we mistake increase heart rate. Our body mistakes the hot temperatures for arousal. the cause of our agitated state to the thing rather than heat: media: Bushman & anderson (2009) staged an event outside of a movie theatre. Observed how willing people were to help a lady outside with crutches. Some participants saw a violent movie and the other wasn"t.
