Frustration Aggression Hypothesis

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  • Created on: 13-10-22 10:28
who created the FAH?
Dollard et al,
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what is the FAH based off?
the psychodynamic approach of catharsis (released of build up frustrations)
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what did freud believe?
that the drive for aggression was innate
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What did dollars propose in regards to frustration?
we experience frustration, which leads to agg and then releases a cathartic response
this can start by goal prevention which can be due to external reasons ie money, power, unavailability, but since we cant release it at the-
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-source of agg, we have diff. reactions....
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what did freud suggests about these reactions and what is the term referred to as?
defence mechanisms
1. sublimation- using acceptable activities ie sports
2. displacement-directing agg at something/someone else
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who proposed a revised FAH and what did they suggest?
Berkowitz argued frustration doesn't always lead to agg, the agg could change in the presence of a certain cue of presence of weapons
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label and remember the table
frustration eg blocking of a goal→increased arousal eg a goal→ result 1. presence of agg cues ie weapons→ greater chance of being agg OR result 2. no agg cues→ less chance of being agg
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name the evaluations
+green, lab exp, undergraduates to do jigsaw, 3 conditions, 1. undoable time limit, 2.impossible to complete jigsaw, 3.confederates gave insults to pp who failed to do jigsaw, second part of study like milligrams and had to give shocks and group 3-
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-gave the highest level of shocks. all 3 groups gave more shocks than a control group who hand experience any frustration
+Berkowitz, lab exp, pp could shock confederates who previously enraged them in 3 conditions-
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1. agg cue (a gun), 2.non agg cue (Badminton racket) and 3. no cue at all. found pp in agg cue gave higher level of shocks than other groups (+shed light on gun control and weapon effect in America) -
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-research in this area is conducted in lab exp and shows issues of ecological validity, which is hard to apply outside of research setting
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