Agression (11) key terms Flashcards
Aggression
Behavior that is intended to harm another person
Catharsis
When the motive to aggress is reduced by imagining, observing, or doing agression
Cultivation
When the mass media is able to create a social reality that does not actually exist. Agression is normalised in this way
Cycle of violence
When domestic violence is passed on from generation to generation in a household
Desesitization
When people stop experiencing physiological reactivity as a result of emotions due to frequent exposure
Displacemen
When people can’t agress towards the source of their frustration because that source is unavailable, so they choose a substitute target. Often someone in their near vicinity
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
The idea that frustration will always lead to the need ot aggress and that all aggression comes from frustration (John Dollard)
Hostile attribution bias
a very high tendency for people to percieve hostile intent in others
Pornography
Explicit sexual materia
Proactive agression
When people aggress to reach a certain goal, like self-defense or attention
Reactive aggression
When people harm others for the sake of harmig them, like revenge
Rumnation
When someone constantly relives an enger inducing event that would have otherwise faded from memory
Social learning theory
Staten that people learn from the example of others as well as our personal experiences with rewards and punishments
Weapons effect
When the mere prescence of weapons can increase aggression
