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Agression
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- 1Define aggressionBehaviour aimed at harming others
- 2What is a biological cause of aggression?The limbic system and the prefrontal cortex being damaged may cause abnormally high levels of aggression
- 3What did Charles Whitman do?Climbed up a clock tower in Texas and shot 12 people, he also killed his mother and left a suicide note to investigate why he was killing. It was found he had a tumour pressing on the amygdala that caused his aggression.
- 4Why are males more aggressive than females?Males have more testosterone than females, testosterone is though to be the cause of aggression - supported by findings that violent criminals have higher levels of testosterone than non violent criminals
- 5What is the psychodynamic explainationFreud said that aggression in innate. Aggression is cause by an internal force called Thanatos in which feelings build up. We have the ego defence mechanism that redirects aggression outwardly so we redirect our aggression towards other people
- 6What is displacement?Being aggressive towards other people
- 7What is sublimation?Channelling our aggression into acceptable activities
- 8Describe and evaluate a study on biological causes of aggressionYOUNG ET AL-
A- to see the effect of hormones on aggressive behaviour
M- inject pregnant monkeys w/ testosterone
R- females behaved more like males
C- testosterone plays a vital part in aggression
E- unethical, done on monkeys - 9What did Dollard et al say?That aggression needed a trigger rather than it suddenly spilling out (frustration-aggression hypothesis)
- 10Describe and evaluate one study on the psychodynamic theoryBAKER
A- effect of frustration and aggressive behaviour
M- kept some children waiting before they could play with the toys, observed
R- children were more aggressive when kept waiting
C- frustration leads to aggression
E- lab setting - 11What is the social learning explanation of aggression?That aggressive behaviour is caused by seeing how other people behave and copying it.
- 12What is vicarious learning?Learning through the experiences of others
- 13Describe and evaluate one study on the social learning theoryBANDURA
A- find out if 6 yr olds would imitate aggressive behaviour
M- 96 children in 4 groups, 3 were shown a role model being aggressive towards a doll
R- children who witnessed aggressive behaviour were more aggressive than those that saw none
C- children will copy others behaviour
E- lab setting
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