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| any form of behaviour directed toward the goal of harming or injuring another living being who is motivated to avoid such treatment. |
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| one of the theories that agression is inborn is that agressision is instivie. explain this thoery |
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by mcDoughall.
is one of our 16 insitncts.
- this is NOT based on empirical findigns |
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| How does Freud explain the agression being inborn? |
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it is in the death instinct (the other being life intinct) .
his hydrualic theory:
- if we don't use agression, it builds up and we get pscyhological problems.
- not based on experimentation |
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| what happened when a kitten was raised in the same cage a rat? what did it prove? what was its flaw? |
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kitten won't chase the rat
- concluded agression not instictive
- flaw: agressive intintics can be controlled. |
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| what happened in the raising rats in isolation experiment? what was conlcuded, and what was its flaw? |
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- rats attack new rat thats brought in
- conlcuded agression instictive
- flaw: this was an environmental reason, not instinctive |
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| what happened in the experiment with the cichlids, the highly agressive fish? what was conlcuded? |
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naturally, male fish will only attack other male fish. if remove other fish, males will attack eachother, then if you remove males execpt for one, male will attack females.
-proves agression comes from within. |
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| what is the evolutionary persepctive of aggression? (ie why did human warfare start?) |
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| human warfare orginated to obatin valuable resrouces such as women. |
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| What are the three biochemal/neural influnces on aggression? brief. |
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amygdala
testosterone
serotonin |
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| how is the amygdala associated with aggression? |
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| if you simtulite timid monkey's amyglada, it runs away. if stimulate a terriotorial one, it attacks |
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| how is testosterone related to aggression? |
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rapsists have higher levels of testosterone.
so do younger men, and agression is hgiher in these men.
*but if you inject someone with testosterone, they won't become more aggressive).
those highly educated with high testosterone won't be as agressive as those with low education and high testosterone |
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| how is serotonin related to aggression? |
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| low level of serotonin makes you less likely to resist aggressive impulses. |
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| how does agression related to the social learning theory? |
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occurence of agression depends on:
- past experience, current reinforcement, and social and cognitive factors rearding the appropriateness of such behaviours |
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| what is the relationship betwen slef esteem and aggression? |
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| overly high levels of self esteem are more aggressive |
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| the relationship between esteem and agression is proof for agression being learned or agression being inborn? |
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| agression bening learned. |
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| what is the frustration-agressino theory? |
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| frustration always electis the motive to be aggressive and all aggression is caused by frusteration |
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| the study that found a correlation of racial aggression (lynchin?g) to economic security, provides evidence for which theories? |
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| frusteration-agression theory which is part of situational influnces on aggression. |
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| true or false, those feeling frsuteration are more likyl to have increased negative attiutudes towards minority groups. |
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what is the revised frustration-agression thoery?
how is it different from original? |
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situational cues are assoicated with aggression by creating negative feelings which trigger agression
differint from orignal in that:
- situational cues (Trigger)
- PERECPTION of frustration
- noxious stimuli (not just frustration) |
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| model of human agression flow chart |
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