Judging whether our own behaviour is appropriate or not.
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What is Punishment?
A stimulus that weakens behaviour because it is unpleasant.
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What does repress mean?
Keeping our emotions under very tight control and not express how we are feeling.
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What is ritalin?
A way of reducing aggression. A drug used to control ADHD.
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What is psychosurgery?
A way of reducing aggression. An operation on the brain to remove or destroy the part that is causing abnormal behaviour.
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What is catharsis?
A way of reducing aggression through the A theory of aggression. The process of getting rid of your emotions by watching other people experiencing emotion.
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Young et al. investigated the biological causes of agression, what was their method?
Young injected testosterone into pregnant rhesus monkeys and observed the levels of aggression in their offspring as they matured.
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What is testosterone?
The hormone is said to be responsible for aggression. This is a theory of why males can be more aggressive than females. Violent offenders have higher levels of testosterone than most non-violent offenders.
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What is the link between chromosomes and aggression?
Most violent offenders have a chromosome abnormality. They have an extra Y chromosome that makes them act this way. It happens when the 23rd chromosome, the sex chromosome, fails to divide, it can arrange into an XYY arrangement in some men.
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How does the limbic system play a part in agression?
When we are aggressive, it is caused by our instincts, which is controlled by the limbic system. It is involved in learning and knows whether behaviour is appropriate or not. If they have brain disease then it does not learn and cannot control it.
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Bandura et al. investigated the social learning theory of aggression, what was their aim?
To find out if 3-6 year old children would imitate the aggressive behaviour they see role models performing towards an inflatable 'bobo' doll.
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What is displacement?
Being aggressive towards other people.
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What is sublimation?
Channelling our aggression into other acceptable activities.
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What is Thanatos?
The part of our unconscious, that is an instinct to us, that causes our aggressive drive.
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What are the ego-defense mechanisms?
Behaviour strategies used by the individual to protect itself.
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Who proposed the psychodynamic theory of gender development?
Freud.
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How can thanatos be described?
A saucepan of boiling water. As the water heats up the pressure (repressed emotion), forces it over the top (displacement or sublimation). Our aggression build up until we cannot stop it from spilling out.
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Barker investigated the frustration-aggression theory, what was his method?
Children were kept waiting a long time before being allowed to play in a room full of attractive toys. Their behaviour was observed.
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Bandura et al. investigated the social learning method of reducing aggression, what were their results?
Those children who saw the model being punished were less aggressive themselves than the those who saw the model reinforced.
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Learning by observation.
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What What is vicarious learning?
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Judging whether our own behaviour is appropriate or not.
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Card 4
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A stimulus that weakens behaviour because it is unpleasant.
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Card 5
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Keeping our emotions under very tight control and not express how we are feeling.
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