Aggression

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High levels of aggression in young males
sexual jealous - motivator of aggressive behaviour in males and ancestors might have used aggression as adaptive strategy to surive+ so greater reproductive success due to high attraction females
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outline social learning theory in aggression
learned through direct learning - operant conditioning if rewarding vicarious reinforcement + vicarious punishment if punished and also indirect learning by observational learning - role model imitating - children specific
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cognitive control -SLT
Bandura - 4 conditions needed for observational learning happen - attention, retention - remember actions, reproduction - must be able perform, motivation - decision if its rewarding?
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Self efficiency - SLT
extent which believe our actions will achieve deserved goal
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Evaluation SLT - cant explain agggression
aggressive child uses aggression retaliate in heat of moment - not use achieve anything
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SLT research evaluation
applied ST analysis aggressive behaviours boys aged 9-12y - found most made friends other aggressive boys - lasting, stable, mutually reinforcing aggresion+ used alliences with each other gain resources from aggression
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SLT - Practical benefits
people active influencers own behaviour - shape aggressive behaviour by selecting+ creating surroundings - if understood educate people+ encourage make better choices - opporunity model non aggressive heaviour + lower aggresion+ criminal acts
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research into institutional aggresion
situational explanation- Stainer investigted factors that predicted inmate aggression - found inmate on inmate violence more common when, inmates priso where high female staff, african- american, hispaic inmates + inmates in protective study
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media influence on aggression - experimental study
Bartholow + anderson students played violent+Non violent computer game- then carried out Taylor competitve reaction time task - standard lab measure which students delivered blasts of white noise at chosen volumes to punish opponent
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experimental study finding
those played violent game selected higher levels than those played non violent
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experimental study evaluation
lab studies often accused unrealistic - Taylor competitive reaction time task + unrealistic - experiment gives participants implied permission be safely aggressive
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cognitive priming
repeated viewing of aggressive media can provide us with scripit about how violent situations may play out
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adoption study
Rhee+ waldman carried out meta analysis of direct aggression+ antisocial behaviour + found genetic influences accounted for 41% of variance in aggression
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evaluation of adoption study
difficul measuring aggression - methods differ - between self reports, teacher+ parent report, + direct observation -adoption study genetic factors had greater influence when self report used - difficult draw valid conclusions
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