Social Psych Ch. 11
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- instrumental aggression
- inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
- aggression
- behavior intended to harm another individual
- emotional aggression
- inflicting harm for its own sake
- social learning theory
- the proposition that behavior is learned through the observation of others as well as through the direct experience of rewards and punishments
- frustration-aggression hypothesis
- the idea that (1)frustration always elicits the motive to aggress and (2)all aggression is caused by frustration
- displacement
- aggressing against a substitute target because aggressive acts against the source of the frustration are inhibited by fear or lack of access
- catharsis
- a reduction of the motve to aggress that is said to result from any imagined, observed, or actual act of aggression
- arousal-affect model
- the proposal that aggression is influenced by both the intensity of arousal and the type of emotion produced by a stimulus
- cognitive neoassociation analysis
- 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
- weapons effect
- the tendency of weapons to increase the likelihood of aggression by their mere presence
- mitigating information
- information about a person's situation indicating that he or she should not be held fully responsible for aggressive actions
- hostile attribution bias
- the tendenc to perceive hostile intent in others
- habituation
- adaptation to something familiar, so that both physiological and psychological responses are reduced
- cultivation
- the process by which the mass media (particularly television) construct a version of social reality for the public
- pornography
- explicit sexual material
- cycle of family violence
- the transmission of domestic violence accross generations