Aggression Flashcards
(14 cards)
What is aggression?
To show anger/hostility.
What is deindividuation?
When a person no longer acts and thinks like an individual in the presence of a group.
What is desensitisation?
A term used to describe people becoming used to seeing violence and aggression due to constant exposure through media, such as news or films. Thus, the threshold to be shocked at aggression is raised all the time.
What is disinhibition?
Removing inhibitions from previously unacceptable behaviour. In aggression, this term serves to explain how via new norms introduced in the media, certain aggressions become acceptable.
What is a dispositional explanation?
An explanation for institutional aggression that suggests certain individuals are predisposed to being aggressive because of certain traits that individual has.
What is an ethological explanation?
An explanation of aggression which suggests that it is a natural response. Its purpose could be understood if it were to be observed in nature.
What are fixed action patterns?
The behaviour that is released after the innate releasing mechanism has been activated.
What is the frustration-aggression hypothesis?
The theory that every experience of frustration leads to a build-up of aggression, which is unavoidable. This eventually leads to the need to relapse of aggression which results in aggressive behaviours.
What are innate releasing mechanisms?
The natural algorithm that exists to prepare a person to exhibit aggressive behaviour.
What is institutional aggression?
Aggression that is exhibited by a group in an institute, for example prisoners.
What is the limbic system?
A group of structures in the brain that are involved with emotion and long-term memory.
What is the MAOA gene?
An enzyme in humans that is said to be associated with certain aggressive behaviours.
What is serotonin?
A neurotransmitter that is responsible for maintaining mood and well-being.
What is a situational explanation?
An explanation for institutional aggression that suggests it arises because of the environment and atmosphere in the institution.
