Social Psych Ch. 11

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instrumental aggression

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inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value

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aggression

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behavior intended to harm another individual

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emotional aggression

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inflicting harm for its own sake

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social learning theory

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the proposition that behavior is learned through the observation of others as well as through the direct experience of rewards and punishments

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frustration-aggression hypothesis

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the idea that (1)frustration always elicits the motive to aggress and (2)all aggression is caused by frustration

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displacement

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aggressing against a substitute target because aggressive acts against the source of the frustration are inhibited by fear or lack of access

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catharsis

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a reduction of the motve to aggress that is said to result from any imagined, observed, or actual act of aggression

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arousal-affect model

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the proposal that aggression is influenced by both the intensity of arousal and the type of emotion produced by a stimulus

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cognitive neoassociation analysis

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the view that unpleasant experiences create negative affect, which in turn stimulates associations connected with anger and fear; emotional and behavioral outcomes then depend, at least in part, on higher-order cognitive processing

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weapons effect

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the tendency of weapons to increase the likelihood of aggression by their mere presence

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mitigating information

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information about a person's situation indicating that he or she should not be held fully responsible for aggressive actions

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hostile attribution bias

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the tendenc to perceive hostile intent in others

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habituation

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adaptation to something familiar, so that both physiological and psychological responses are reduced

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cultivation

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the process by which the mass media (particularly television) construct a version of social reality for the public

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pornography

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explicit sexual material

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cycle of family violence

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the transmission of domestic violence accross generations