Social Psychological Aggression
Mind Map showing the explanations and some IDAs for Social Psychological Aggression
- Created by: becca1103
- Created on: 14-05-14 20:53
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- Social Psychological Aggression
- Deindividuation
- An individual will become aggressive because they lose their identity and personal responsibility
- Maybe because they are: Anonymous, under the influence, have a sensory overload, have reduced responsibility or high arousal
- Social Approach
- Ignores genetics, sides with nurture
- Real world applications: CCTV, and explains real world aggression e.g football, riots
- However research mostly developed in western society, and doesn't explain aggression in people who ahven't been deindividuated
- Le Bon: Collective mob mindset
- Fear and guilt removed
- Zimbardo and Gergen
- Support, refute
- An individual will become aggressive because they lose their identity and personal responsibility
- Social Learning Theory
- Behavioural Approach
- Reductionist: oversimplified because it doesn't account for genetics
- We imitate aggression when we observe the behaviour with vicarious reinforcement as we hope to receive the same reward
- e.g When we see someone be violent and get cheered on, we imitate in the hope of also being supported
- ARRM: Must pay attention, retain the information, have the ability to reproduce the actions and be motivated to do so
- More likely to imitate if they are friends, similar age or older, same gender and of higher social status
- Studies: Badura's Bobo Doll, Charlton's St Helena, Mormons
- Support, refute, support
- ETHICS
- Behavioural Approach
- Institutional
- Importation Model
- Criminals bring the aggression into prisons with them
- Explains why some inmates aren't aggressive
- Criminals bring the aggression into prisons with them
- Deprivation Model
- Liberty, Autonomy, Good and Services, Heterosexual Relationships, Security
- Ignores individual differences
- Aggressive in hope of gaining control
- Male bias. Nature v nurture. Social approach, ignores bio.
- STANFORD PRISON EXP
- Supports and refutes
- Importation Model
- Deindividuation
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