PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Reciprocal Altruism, Deindividuation, Body Shape

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Sociail psycology: is the study of the cause and sonsequences of sociality. Our social behaviour revolves aroung two basic goals- survival and reproduction surivival: aggression: is the behaviour whose purpose is to harm another. Frustration-aggression hypothesis: whichs that animals agress when and only when their goals are fustracted (negative affect causes aggression) If animals aggress when they feel bad then anything that makes them feel bad should increase aggression. Both biology and culture play a role in determing if and when people will aggress. Minize the risk learn to spot a cheater, react strongly when you detect a cheater. Group: a collection of people who have something in common that distinguishes them for others. Prejudice: is a positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their group membership. Discrimination: is a positive or negative behaviour towards another person based on their group membership.