PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Rejection, Group Conflict, Ion

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

Document Summary

Hostile aggression: behavior intended to harm another, either physically or psychology. Instrumental aggression: behavior intended to harm another in the service of motives other than pure hostility. ** you harm others but in order to achieve a goal. A: attributional processes - ppl are aroused by the heat, but they don"t even know it has an effect on them So wh. they encounter circumstances that prompt anger, they attribute their arousal to that person, and that misplaced annoyance gives rise to amplified feelings of anger, which can lead to aggression. Media violence & violent video games **correlations, there can be a third variable. Situational determinants of aggression do nothing by themselves, they have to go through construal processes to have an nmeffect on ppl. Ppl are angry (they"ve been shock 7 times by the experimenter instead of 1) and in the presence of weapons, they behave more aggressively.