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Aggression
Nature, Causes and Control
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
04/08/2011

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Aggression
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behavior directed toward the goal of harming another living being who is motivated to avoid such treatment.
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Role of Biological Factors on Aggression (Nature) Sigmund Freud
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Sigmund Freud who held that aggression stems from a powerful death wish (Thanatos) processed by all people. This instinct is initially aimed at self-destruction but it soon redirected outward towards others.
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Konrad Lorenz
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ethologist (study of animalistic behavior) suggested that aggression springs mainly from an inherited fighting instint which assures that only the strongest males will obtain mates and pass thier genes to the next generation.
Genetic factors play some role in aggression
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frustration aggression hypothesis
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the suggestion that frustration is a very powerful determinant of aggression. Frustation leads to the arousal of a drive whose primary goal is that of harming some person or object, primarly the percieved cause of frustration.
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social learning perspective: Bandura
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Human beings are not born with a large array of aggressive responses at their disposal. Rather, they must acquire these in the much same way that they acquire other complex forms of social behavior: through direct experience of by observing the behavior of others. (ie. social models in movies ect)
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GAM General aggresion model
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a modern theory of aggression suggesting that aggression is triggered by a wide range of situational and individual input variables that influence arousal, affective stages, and cognitions.
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famous frustration hypothesis
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1.frustration always leads to some form of aggression 2.aggression always stems from frustration.
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famous frustration hypothesis
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1.frustration always leads to some form of aggression 2.aggression always stems from frustration.// When frustrated individuals do not always respond with aggression. They show many different reactions ranging from sadness, despair and depression on the one hand to direct attempts to overcome the source of their frustration on the other.
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provocation
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actions by others that tend to trigger aggression in the recipient, often because they are perceived as stemming from malicious intent.
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condenscension
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expressions of arrogance or disdain on the part of others are powerful.Harsh and unjustified critism, esp critism that attacks us rather than our behavior, is another powerful form of PROVOCATION.
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teasing
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provoking statements that call attention to the target's flaws and imperfections
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excitation transfer theory
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a theory suggesting that arousal produced in one situation can persist and intensify emotional reactions occuring in later situations
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Social determinants
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1.research on exposure to violent tv movies video games and music indicates that these materials significantly increase liklelihood of aggressive behavior
2. such effects are both short term and long term in nature.
3.the magnitude of these effects is large- at least as large as various medical effects considered to be important by physicians (ie the effect of aspirin on heart attacks)
The more violent movies watched as a child = more aggressive behavior as adult and more likely arrested
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