PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Sex In Film, Norm (Social), Bobo Doll Experiment
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Aggression physical or verbal behaviour intended to hurt someone (excludes unintentional harm, and acts where pain is an unavoidable side effect) (ex. Hostile aggression aggression driven by anger with the goal to injure. Instrumental aggression aggression that is also meant to injure someone but only as a means to some other end (ex. terrorism, bullying as well because people want to demonstrate their dominance). Two ideas emerged: aggression is as a result of being sparked by society and is not human nature. Or, aggression is something that is part of human nature. Instinctive behaviour an innate, unlearned behaviour pattern that is exhibited by all members of a species (freud argued aggression was this) Instinct theory fails because it pretty much just causes us to label every single damn thing we do as part of instinct (which we know is not). It also fails to explain variation in aggression amongst people.
