PSYC 2120 Chapter 12: Chapter 12

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2120
• Professor: Ward Struthers

Document Summary

Defining aggression: aggression: physical or verbal behavior with intent to harm another, violence: acts of aggression with more severe or lasting consequences. Romantic partner bites the neck, intention to cause pain but not harm. The harm caused by aggression: harm takes many forms, nonlethal forms of physical violence (rape, assault) is psychologically harmful; shatters security, verbal insults, social rejection, cyberbullying reduce self-esteem, retaliation with violence, columbine; virginia tech. Affective and instrumental aggression: affective: intent to harm for the sake of doing so, driven by emotion. Instrumental aggression: intent to harm to serve some other goal. Measuring aggression: use of statistics, correlation research of a subject variable, cannot measure a subject variable directly; operationalize. Biology and human aggression: thanatos: freudian term for innate instinct to aggress and destroy. Physiology of aggression: brain regions, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex: alert us when theres conflict between our expectations and the situation; interfering with goals.