APA 2140 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Moral Development, Goal Orientation, Psychodynamics

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Lecture 8: aggression and moral behaviour in sport chapter 6. Team norms: standards or expectations that influence behaviour. Instrumental aggression: means to a goal and involves no injury to a person: hostile (reactive) aggression: deliberately hurt another player. Bullying: imbalance of power between peers where the one who is more powerful repeatedly attacks the less powerful with the intention to harm. Hazing: any potentially humiliating, degrading, abusive, or dangerous activity expected of individual to belong to a group, regardless of willingness to participate. Instinct theory: psychodynamics: innate instincts to be aggressive, catharsis: the release of aggressive tendencies through socially acceptable means. Physiological explanations: aggression is physiological in nature, brain pathology: research indicates aggressive behaviour is characteristics of people with brain tumors, blood chemistry: aggression linked to the hormone testosterone. Frustration-aggression theory: frustration always leads to some form of aggression, aggression is always the result of frustration.