Aggression Flashcards
General aggression model
Anderson’s model that includes both personal and situational factors and cognitive and affective processes in accounting for different kinds of aggression.
Institutionalised aggression
Aggression that is given formal or informal recognition and social legitimacy by being incorporated into rules and norms.
How can societal factors cause disadvantaged groups into aggression?
They have a sense if relative deprivation and a sense of having less than they feel entitled to therefore causing them to be aggressive.
Weapons effect
The mere presence of a weapon increases the probability that it will be used aggressively.
Deindividuation
Process whereby people lose their sense of socialised individual identity and engage in unsocialised and often antisocial behaviours.
What kind of a physical environment can cause increased levels of aggression?
Heat and crowding can cause increased levels of aggression.
How can hormones affect aggression?
Increased levels of testosterone and type A personalities led to higher shocks being administered.
What is disinhibition and what causes it?
A breakdown of learned controls against behaving impulsively.
Alcohol has a disinhibiting effect.
Excitation transfer
Expression of aggression is a function of learned behaviour, some excitation from another source and the persons interpretation of the arousal state.
Cathartic Hypothesis
The notion that acting aggressively or even just viewing aggressive material reduces feelings of anger and aggression.
Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
Theory that all frustration tends to lead to aggression and all aggression comes from frustration.
Explain why job loss can lead to violence
Role of social/economical deprivation on ethnic cleansing
–> loose definition of frustration
–> difficult to predict what frustrating circumstances may lead to aggression.
