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- 1What's Aggression?Behavior aimed at harming others.
- 2What are hormones?Chemicals released by our endocrine system that affect how our bodies function and how we behave.
- 3What are chromosomes?The parts of each cell that carry the genetic information from our parents.
- 4What's the Limbic system?The part of the brain that causes aggressive behaviour.
- 5What's the prefrontal cortex?The very front of the brain. It's involved in the social and moral behaviour and controls aggression.
- 6What's Brain disease?Damage to the brain caused by illness or trauma.
- 7What's Thanatos?The part of our unconscious that causes our aggressive drive.
- 8What's the Ego defence mechanisms?Behavior strategies used by the individual to protect itself.
- 9What's vicarious learning?Learning by observation.
- 10What's monitoring?Judging whether our own behaviour is appropriate or not.
- 11What's punishment?A stimulus that weakens behaviour because it is unpleasant and we try to avoid it.
- 12What's a PET scan?A technique to show how the brain is working by imaging it while the patient is carrying out a mental task.
- 13What's repress?Keep our emotions under very tight control and not express how we are feeling.
- 14What's the 'Bobo' doll?An inflatable doll about 1.5 meters tall that is weighted at the bottom. It's designed to jump back up when it's knocked over.
- 15What's Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD)?A disorder characterised by short short attention span, poor concentration and uncontrollable aggressive outbursts.
- 16What's Ritalin?A drug used to control ADHD.
- 17What's Psychosurgery?An operation on the brain to remove or destroy the part this is causing the abnormal behaviour.
- 18What's Catharasis?The process of getting rid of your emotions by watching other people experiencing emotion.
- 19What's Curvilinear?A relationship that increases in strength to a point, but then begins to decrease.
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