SOP 3004 Midterm: Exam 3 – review: social psych

• School: FIU
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOP 3004
• Professor: Michelle Thompson

Document Summary

Aggression: any form of behavior intended to cause harm. Types of aggression: hostile: springs from anger. Instrumental: intentional use of harmful behavior to achieve some other goal. Indirect/ covert: social manipulation in which the aggressor attempts to harm another without being face-to-face. Biochemical influences: alcohol: involved in ~50% of all violent crimes, testosterone: disrupts and redirects neural activity normally inhibiting aggressive behavior, poor diets, frustration: blocking of goal-directed behavior. (displacement) Relative deprivation: perception that one is less well off than others with whom one compares oneself. Observational learning: we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded and punished. Heat hypothesis hot temperatures increase hostile thoughts and feelings. depending on how the person interprets and labels the arousal. Arousal a given state of bodily arousal feeds one emotion or another, Most obvious cues are weapons (guns, knives, clubs). Less obvious cues include negative attitudes and unpleasant physical characteristics.