PS270 Study Guide - Final Guide: David Buss, Sexual Arousal, Verbal Behavior
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A physical or verbal behaviour intended to hurt someone: excluding unintentional harm, such as unavoidable side effects of helping someone. Social aggression and silent aggression: displays of rage social, stalking silent. Hostile aggression: aggression driven by anger and performed as an end in itself goal is to injure. Instrumental aggression: aggression that is a means to some other end goal to injure only as a means to some other end. Aggression as a biological phenomenon: instinct theory. Freud human aggression springs from self-destructive impulse. It redirects toward others the energy of a primitive death urge. Lorenz aggression is adaptive rather than self- destructive. Both agreed that aggressive energy is instinctive behaviour: innate, unlearned behaviour pattern exhibited by all members of a species. Fails to account for the variation in aggressiveness. Buss and shackelford aggressive behaviour was a strategy for gaining resources, defending against attack, intimidating or eliminating male rivals. Helps explain the high levels of male-male aggression: neural influences.
