Social psychological approaches to explaining aggression
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- Social psychological approaches to explaining aggression
- Social learning theory
- Bandura, Ross and Ross; the Bobo doll 1961
- 72 participants
- half children exposed to an aggressive model
- role model was same sex
- half exposed to non- aggressive role model
- opposite sex
- Children taken to a room to play but were only aloud to play for a few minutes
- children left frustrated
- once the children were frustrated they were exposed to the bobo doll
- children who were exposed to the aggressive role model were more likely to show aggression
- boys showed a greater trend of showing aggressive behaviour when the role model was male
- laboratory based
- low ecological validity
- reduced real life application, parents may hide their children from violence
- deterministic
- highlights the consequences of exposing children to violence
- free will, children capable of logical thoughts
- culturally biased
- imposed etic
- bobo doll was intended for punching
- knowledge of this could influence the children's behaviour
- ignored the biological approach
- Bandura, Ross and Ross; the Bobo doll 1961
- Cue arousal
- Berkowitz and LePage
- 100 undergraduate students
- each participant given a confederate
- In the first condition the participant was given mild electric shocks
- the number was indicative of the confederates performance on a problem solving task
- In one group were the angry group who received many shocks, while the other group only received a few
- the angry group had a shotgun in the room while the other group had a badminton racket
- they found that the angry group gave more shocks and held down the button for longer
- artificial environment
- low ecological validity
- in subsequent replications of this study no consistent trends have been established
- cultural and age bias
- electrical shocks were unethical
- Berkowitz and LePage
- deindividuation
- Dieher 1976
- naturalistic observation
- 1,300 trick or treating children
- children were in large groups and their identity was hidden by their costumes
- more likely to perform antisocial actions such a stealing money or taking too many sweets
- group reduces the possibility of personal identification which means that behaviour may deviate from normal standards
- Silke
- analysed 500 violent attacks in Northern Ireland
- 206 were of people who were wearing some kind of disguise
- the severity of the violence was linked to whether the perpetrator was masked or not
- Watson 1973
- correlational study
- 24 cultures
- warriors disguised their identity though face paint/ garments
- the more paint the more aggressive
- eg more likely to kill captives
- Cannavale et al found a difference response to deindividuation of males and females
- greater in males
- Dieher 1976
- relative deprivation
- many riots have come about due to inequalities between groups of people
- eg Brixton riots where there was tension between police and an economically deprived
- due to a difference of opportunities the deprived realise what they lack
- leads to the aggressive individuals feeling aggressive
- Wright and Kile
- the encouragement of social mobility would reduce the effects of relative deprivation
- if the deprived had more opportunities then aggression would be reduced
- Social learning theory
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