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AWA Chp 12
AWA Chp 12 Aggression
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aggression | Intentional behavior aimed at doing harm or causing pain to another person |
| Hostile Aggression | Aggression stemming from feelings of anger and aimed at inflicting pain |
| Instrumental Aggression | Aggression as a means to some goal over than causing pain |
| Eros | instinct towards life, posited by Freud |
| Thanatos | instictual drive towards death, leading to aggressive actions |
| Amygdala | Area of the brain that is associated with aggressive behaviors |
| Serotonin | Chemical in brain that could inhibit aggression |
| Scripts | Ways of behaving socially that we learn implicitly from our culture |
| Catharsis | "Blowing off steam" -- performing an aggressive act, watching others engage in aggressive behaviors, or engaging in a fantasy of aggression- relieves you and therefore makes you less likely to be aggressive |