Aggression Flashcards
What is aggression?
Aggression is the intentional infliction of harm on others.
What are the sources of aggression?
Research findings indicate that it derives from many different sources, including biological factors in interaction with environmental stressors and status-seeking.
What is the drive theory of aggression?
It suggests that aggression stems from externally elicited drives to harm or injure others.
What is the frustration-aggression hypothesis?
This suggests that frustration - anything that prevents us from reaching the goals we are seeking - leads to arousal of a drive whose primary goal is that harming some person or object - particularly the perceived cause of frustration
What does the General Aggression Model (GAM) suggest?
It is a modern theory of aggression.
It recognizes the importance of learning in aggression, various eliciting input variables, individual differences, affective states, and, especially, cognitive processes.
Does all aggression come from frustration?
Not all agression stems from frustration, and frustration does not always lead to aggression.
Although frustration is a strong elicitor of aggression only under certain limited conditions.
What is another powerful elicitor for aggression?
Provocation from others is a powerful elicitor of aggression.
The strongest form of provocation appears to be expressions of condescension, but even teasing can stimulate aggression.
Can teasing stimulate aggression?
Yes, it can.
What is excitation transfer theory?
This process suggests that heightened arousal can increase aggression if it persists beyond the situation in which it was induced and is unknowingly interpreted as anger generated in the new context.
Does playing violent video games have any relationship with aggression?
Yes, Playing violent video games increases aggressive cognitions, aggressive affect, and overt aggressive behavior.
Does exposure to media violence lead to aggression?
Yes, Exposure to media violence has been found to increase aggression among viewers.
This is due to factors, such as the priming of aggressive thoughts and a weakening of restraints against aggression, and also to desensitization to such materials.
Why do people enjoy playing violent video games?
They enjoy playing violent video games, not because of their aggressive content but because the games satisfy motives for competence and mastery.
Are there any gender differences in aggression?
Existing evidence suggests that the widely accepted view that men are more aggressive than women is not entirely correct.
When gender differences emerge depends on the type of aggression and a variety of situational factors.
Studies indicate that men involve in Physical type of aggression than women. And Women involve more in Verbal aggression than men.
When does narcissistic rage can emerge?
This type of rage can emerge when others question the individual’s inflated self-view.
Just remember this.
Men are more likely than women to engage in physical aggression, and to both perpetrate and be victims of several forms of violent crime,
However, the two genders do not differ significantly in terms of verbal aggression, although men tend to use stronger forms of such behavior.
How do men and women behave when given strong provocation or no provocation?
Following Strong provocation, both men and women are similarly likely to respond with some form of aggression.
However, men are more likely than women to behave aggressively in the absence of strong provocation.
What kinds of aggression women are engaged in more than men?
Women are slightly more likely than men to engage in indirect forms of aggression - action intended to harm the victim in the absence of face-to-face confrontations
Does temperature rise increase aggression?
High temperatures tend to increase aggression but only up to a point.
Beyond some level, aggression declines as temperatures rise.
The relationship between alcohol and aggression is..
Consuming alcohol can increase aggression in both men and women, perhaps because alcohol reduces the individual’s capacity to process some kinds of information and inhibits self-control following provocation.
What is the weapons effect?
Research on the weapons effect indicates that weapon availability can affect the intention to commit aggressive acts.
Handling a gun (versus a toy) increases aggressive behavior in males by increasing their testosterone levels
Does owning a gun provide a protective effect?
Research has revealed that gun ownership does not provide a protective effect; rather living in a household with guns increases the risk of both homicide and suicide. In different countries following legislation restricting gun access, gun deaths have decreased.
What is bullying and why does it occur?
Bullying involves repeated aggression against individuals who, for various reasons, are unable to defend themselves against such treatment. Bullying occurs in many contexts, including schools and workspaces
What kind of children are bullies or victims of bullies?
Few children are solely bullies or victims; more play both roles.
Bullies and bully victims appear to have lower self-esteem than children who are not involved in bullying.
What is the most successful technique so far to reduce bullying in schools?
The most successful technique so far is the programs using popular students as models against bullying, which serves to change the perceived norms in schools.
