Social Psych Chapter 11,12,13

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Aggression

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Behaviour that is intended to injure someone physically or psychologically

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Violence

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Aggression that is intended to cause extreme injury

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Hostile aggression

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harm-doing that arises out of negative emotions such as anger, frustration, or hatred

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Instrumental aggression

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Harm-doing that is motivated by goals other than hurting the target, such as obtaining something of value

Often premeditated or planned rather than impulsive

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Relational aggression

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Behaviour that is intended to damage another person's peer relationships. I.e. False Gossip, ridicule

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General Aggression model (GAM)

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A broad theory that conceptualizes aggression as the result of a chin of psychological processes, including situational events, aggressive thoughts and feelings, and interpretations of the situation

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Frustration-Aggression hypothesis

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The win propositions that frustration always leads to some form of aggression and frustration is the only cause of aggression

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Catharsis

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The idea that aggressive behaviour releases peoples pent-up frustration and reduces the likelihood of subsequent aggression

Evidence is weak or non-existant

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Displaced aggression

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Harm-doing that is directed at someone or something that was not the actual source of frustration

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Excitation Transfer

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The idea that physiological arousal from sources other than frustration or anger can be linked to anger-related thoughts and cognitions, thereby increasing aggression

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Social Learning Theory

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An approach proposing that humans learn many kinds of ressponses, including aggressive ones, by observing others; observation shows people both how to perform a behaviour and whether that behaviour will be rewarded or punished

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Cognitive Neoassociation model of aggression

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A theory of harm-doing proposing that aversive events activate the schemas for fight and flight, which elicit the emotions of anger adn fear; whether people responds with aggression or escape depends on the pattern of cues in the situation

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Trait Aggressiveness

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A disposition that represents how likely people are to respond to provocations with aggression

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Aggression Questionnaire (AQ)

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A scale that measures individual differences in trait aggressiveness

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Executive Functioning

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Higher-order cognitive processing that organizes and coordinates lower-level elements of behaviour such as planning and monitoring progress toward goals

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Culture of Honour

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A social network in which men are taught from an early age to defend their reputation for strength by responding to insults or threats with aggression

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Erotica

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Sexually explicit material that depicts nonviolent, consensual sexual activity

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Degrading pornography

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Sexually explicit material that debases or dehumanizes people, usually women

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Violent pornography

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sexually explicit material that depicts aggressive, hostile sexual activity

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Cognitive-relaxation coping skills training (CRCS)

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An intervention program designed to reduce anger, which involves teaching people a set of relaxation techniques and ways to modify their anger-related thoughts

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Cognitive restructuring

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Recognizing and modifying anger-related thoughts and attributions; it forms part of CRCS training

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Egoistic Motivation

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A motive for helping in order to obtain rewards or avoid punishments

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Altruistic motivation

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A motive for helping purely for the sake of providing benefit to another person

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Inclusive Fitness

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The Principle that some social behaviours have been selected during the course of evolution because they increase the survival of our genes

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Empathy

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The ability to coprehend how another person is experiencing a situation

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Empathy-altruism hypothesis

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the idea that feeling of empathy for a person can lead to behaviour that is motivated solely by wanting to help that person