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Aggression
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- 1Aggression Two types of aggression which are instrumental and hostile.Instrumental aggression - used to achieve a specific goal and not always accompanied by anger. (E.g. Boxing)
Hostile aggression - aimed at damaging someone or something and often done in anger. - 2Biological explanation Aggression may be caused by hormones. In general males tend to be more aggressive than females, so aggression is caused by the male hormone testosterone. There is evidence to support this, as violent criminals usually have higher levels of testosterone than non - violent criminalsViolent criminal males have also been found to have an extra Y chromosomes. Most males have XY (females have XX) but violent offender often have XYY, so it may be that this chromosomal abnormality makes them more aggressive than normal.
- 3Brian disease has also been known to cause aggression. This could be a disease which affect the limbic system - the primitive part of the brain which is concerned with instinctive behaviour like eating, sex and aggression.Usually these instincts are controlled by the prefrontal cortex, which stops us being too greedy, aggressive or sexual. If there is disease affecting either the limbic system or the prefrontal cortex then the balance between these two parts of the brain is destroyed and can result in highly aggressive behaviour.
- 4Psychodynamic Explanation Freud suggested that we are all born with an unconscious drive to be destructive and aggressive, called Thanatos, or the death instinct. In order to protect ourselves from this potentially self destructive drive, we turn it outwards onto others.Freud called this redirection of aggressive drives, displacement. An example of this is being cross with yourself about something, but taking it out on someone else, like kicking the cat. Sometimes we manage to redirect out aggressive drives onto something that does not harm other people (or animals) like sport. Freud called this sublimation.
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- GCSE Psychology (Unit 2 (second paper)) FlashCards sobre Aggression, criado por jennojasso em 29-04-2015.
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