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1
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What is aggression

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Intentional efforts to harm others

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What 2 reasons based on biological factors do people aggress against others

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  1. human beings aggress against others by excluding them from social groups to performing overt acts of violence against them
  2. The frequency of aggressive behaviour varies across human societies occuring more in certain people than others.
3
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State the drive theory of aggression

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Proposes that external conditions that mainly create frustration which is to arouse a strong motive to harm others and when activated can lead to overt acts of aggression like provocation.

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State the frustration aggression hypothesis

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Suggests that frustration or anything preventing us from reaching goals leads to the arousal of a drive whose primary goal is that of harming the cause of the frustration.

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What is the social learning perspective

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Suggests that whether a person will aggress in a situation depends on many factors like experience reward attitude and potential effects.

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What are the factors determining aggressive behaviour

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Ways of seeking to harm others
Which group are appropriate targets
What actions justify retaliation
What situations are ones in which aggression is allowed

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Explain the general aggression model

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An event that may lead to overt aggression can be initiated by 2 types of input variables: factors relating to current situation and factors relating to people involved

Variables falling into situational include frustration provocation exposure to others behaving aggressively and anything causing individual to experience discomfort.

Individuals difference include traits and predispose individual towards aggressive like certain attitude and beliefs about violence and tendency to perceive hostile intenostions and skills related to violence.

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What is the frustration aggression hypothesis

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The 2 assertions is that frustration always leads to some form of aggression and that aggression always stems from frustration.

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Explain the excitation transfer theory

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Claims that physiological arousal tends to dissipate slowly overtime and persists as person moves from one situation to the next

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What is the cognitive evaluation Theory

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Suggests that isn’t not the violence in media but the sense of autonomy and competence that it provides.

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What is desensitisation

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Repeated exposure to violence causes people to become less sensitive to violence and it’s consequences.

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How does exposure to violence increase tendency to aggress against others

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It reduces individuals emotional reactions to violent events and perceived as common

Strengthens beliefs about appropriateness of aggression and other related cognitive processes of aggression

13
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What is the hostile attributional bias

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Perceiving hostility in others causes aggressive response.

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What is narcissism

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Extremely positive unjustified views of oneself and may lead to be aggressive when questioned on overblown views of self called narcissistic rage

Narcissism includes grandiosity where people show off and show arrogance and vulnerability which reflects tendency to be bitter complaining and defensive.

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What is indirect aggression

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Actions designed to harm others but not performed directly against them.

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State three situational determinants of aggression

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Climate
Alcohol and substance use
Weapon availablity

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What is bullying

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A form of interpersonal aggression in which one person intentionally and repeatedly aggresses against another due to having more power or status than victim.

18
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Define cyber bullying

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The use of Info and technology to deliberately repeatedly engage in hostile behaviour to harm others

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What is catharsis

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View that if people vent their anger in non harmful ways their tendencies to engage in more dangerous types of aggression will be reduced.

It’s sometimes ineffective because anger may be increased when individuals think about wrongs suffered by others

Watching aggressive scenes and alike may activate more aggressive responses