| Question |
Answer |
| Agression |
behavior that is intended toharm another individual |
| instrumental aggression |
inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value |
| emotional aggression |
harm is inflicted for its own sake |
| violence |
refers to extreme acts of aggression |
| anger |
strong feelings of displeasure in response to a peceived injury |
| hostility |
a negative, antagonistic attitude toward another person or group |
| social learning theory |
the theory that behaviour is learned through the obseration of others as well as thorugh the direct experience of rewards and punishments |
| catharis |
a reduction of the motive to aggress that is said to result from any imagined observed or actual act of agression |
| cognitive neoassociation analysis |
the view that unpleasant experiences create negative affect which in turn stimulates associations conneted with anger and fear. emotional and behavioural outcomes then depend at least in part on higher-order cognitive processing |
| frustration-aggression hypothesis |
the idea that (1) frustration always elicits the motive to aggress and (2) all aggression is caused by frustration |
| aorusal affect model |
the proposition that agression is influenced by both the intensity of arousal and the type of emotion produced by a stimulus |
| weapon effect |
the tendency for the presence of guns to increase aggression |
Biology Lab Midterm
