Aggression and Altruism Flashcards
What is Hostile Aggression?
Between members of the same species, accompanied by anger and is often triggered by competition over resources such as food, mates or status.
What is instrumental aggression?
Between animals of different species; Not accompanied by displays of anger. In humans, this is premeditated in service of some other goal such as for money or revenge.
What is relation aggression?
Excluding someone socially as to bully him/her. This is more emotional and involved no physical aggression.
The build up of aggressive energy within an individual may not lead to disastrous acts of aggression if it is released in a process known as…
Catharsis
Who proposed the Cognitive Neoassociation Theory?
Berkowitz
What is the Cognitive Neoassociation Theory?
When people take part in aversive events such as frustration, provocation, loud noises, uncomfortable temperatures and unpleasant odors product negative effects. These negative effects product negative thoughts, which induce fight or flight.
- Negative cues get associated with negative emotions and behaviour and they tend to get linked permanently in memory.
Who proposed the Social Learning Theory?
Bandura, Mischel, Shoda
What is Social Learning Theory?
People acquire aggressive responses the same way they acquire other complex forms of social behavior via direct experience or observation.
Whose works underlined the interactions and the development of antisocial behavioral patterns that rely heavily on the Social Learning Theory?
Patterson
Who proposed the Script Theory?
Huesmann 1986, 1998
What is the Script Theory?
When children observe violence in the mass media, they learn aggressive scripts. They assume the role.
Scripts involves rehearsed and associated concepts in memory, often involving casual links, goals and action plans.
Who proposed the Excitation Transfer Theory?
Zillmann 1983
What is the Excitation Transfer Theory?
If two arousing events are separated by short period of time, arousal from the first event may be misattributed to the second event. If the second event is anger, then additional arousal would make the person angrier. lol
Who proposed the Social Interaction Theory?
Tedeschi and Felson, 1999
What is the Social Interaction Theory?
The person is a decision maker whose choices are directed by the expected rewards, costs and probabilities of obtaining different outcomes. These are aggressive acts motivated by higher level or ultimate goals.
Determinants of Aggression:
conformity group dynamics dehumanization diffusion of responsibility obedience to authority compliance social identity process need to belong
Who discovered the meta analytic review that exposure to violent video games is associated with increased: aggressive behaviour, cognition, affect, physiological arousal, empathy desensitisation and antisocial behaviour?
Anderson et al.
Some people with stable personalities display consistency overtime, resulting in consistent use of schema, scripts and other knowledge structures. Relating to one of the first chapters, what is this type of personality called and what characters to they have?
flat personality; They are vulnerable to social aggression and have lower self esteem. They may be attacked socially from a failure in performance in this character and have no other ones to turn to.
People who display consistency overtime frequently aggress against others in large part because?
They are susceptible towards hostile attribution, perception and expectation biases. (rick and dodge, 1994)
True or false: People with high self esteem tend to be prone to anger and aggression.
True
