Scribd
Upload
171 views16 pages

Aggression Social Psychology

Aggression can be physical, verbal, or psychological and is meant to harm others or cause damage. There are two main types: impulsive aggression which occurs without thinking in response to strong emotions, and instrumental aggression which is planned to achieve a goal. Aggression is determined by social factors like exposure to aggression models, cultural factors like gender norms, personal factors like self-esteem and perceived threats, and situational factors like stress or arousal. Bandura's Bobo doll experiment showed that children can learn aggression through observational learning by watching aggressive adult models.

Uploaded by

Shrawani Dwivedi
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
171 views16 pages

Aggression Social Psychology

Aggression can be physical, verbal, or psychological and is meant to harm others or cause damage. There are two main types: impulsive aggression which occurs without thinking in response to strong emotions, and instrumental aggression which is planned to achieve a goal. Aggression is determined by social factors like exposure to aggression models, cultural factors like gender norms, personal factors like self-esteem and perceived threats, and situational factors like stress or arousal. Bandura's Bobo doll experiment showed that children can learn aggression through observational learning by watching aggressive adult models.

Uploaded by

Shrawani Dwivedi
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 16

Meaning and Determinants of

Aggression
SOCIAL
PSYCHOLOGY
PSY2301
SHRAWANI
DWIVEDI
A50706920040
BA (H) APPLIED
PSYCHOLOGY
3rd Semester
Co
nt
en
t
Introduction
Meaning of
Aggression
Types of Aggression

Determinants of Aggression

Research

Conclusion
Introduction
The study of aggression is prime in the medical services, due to the broad scope
of thinkable negative public health issues, including violence in youngsters, rise in
medical resources use, example: (emergency clinic, psychiatric and trauma
center) and financial costs, and greater involvement in the criminal.
Aggressive behavior and the violence regularly considered as equivalent, but they
are not. Violence is a type of physical torture, while aggressive behavior is an
extensive build that includes physical, verbal, psychological and different methods
for causing hurt. Therefore, violence is nevertheless one type of aggressive
behavior, it does not necessarily include a physical component.
Meaning of Aggression
In psychology the word aggression cite the
scope of practices that can bring about both
physical and mental damage to yourself,
others, or the objects in the environment.
Aggression focuses on harming someone else
either truly or intellectually. While we as a
whole might feel forceful every so often, when
hostility becomes unavoidable or outrageous,
it could be indication of a fundamental
psychological wellness condition, a substance
use issue, or another clinical issue.
Aggression can serve various types of aims, including:
 Expressing anger or hostility
 Asserting dominance
 Intimidating or threatening
 Achieving a goal
 Expressing possession
 Responding to fear
 Reacting to pain
 Competing with others
Types of Aggression
Psychologist partition hostility into two primary sort. Both are harming to the
people who experience them, regardless of whether as the objective or as the
aggressor.
Impulsive Aggression:
Otherwise called affective or reactive aggression, hasty aggression is portrayed by
compelling feelings. Impulsive aggression, especially when it’s caused by anger,
triggers the acute threat response system in the brain, involving the amygdala,
hypothalamus, and periaqueductal gray.
This type of aggression isn’t arranged and regularly happens without giving it
much thought. On the off chance that another vehicle cuts you off in rush hour in
the traffic and you begin yelling and berating the other driver, you are experiencing
the impulsive aggression.
Instrumental Aggression:

Otherwise called predatory aggression, instrumental aggression is set apart by


practices that are expected to accomplish a bigger goal. Instrumental aggression
is regularly painstakingly arranged and normally exists as a necessary evil.
Harming someone else in a theft is an illustration of this sort of aggression. The
aggressor’s goal is to acquire cash, and hurting another individual is the
necessary resources to accomplish that point.
TYPES OF
DETERMINAN
TS IN
AGGRESSION
:

SITUATIONAL SOCIAL

PERSONAL CULTURAL
SOCIAL DETERMINANT

 Frustration: Aggression increases if an individual feels he or she is blocked


from achieving the goals.
 Directs provocation from other people (e.g., physical torture, verbal abuse) is a
significant determinant of aggression.
 Disclosure to aggressive models (observational learnings, disinhibition,
desensitization).
 Lack of social skills (uncapable in social skills)
 Heightened arousal in one situation can keep going and intensify the reactions
on another, unconnected situation.
CULTURAL DETERMINANT

 Cultural reinforcement is a powerful cause of aggression dependent on societal and cultural


standards. This refers to a person who is being supported by their general public for displaying
a particular behavior.

 Gender differences in cultures and societies can also cause aggression e.g., boys are
expected to be strong and brave, on the other hand girls are expected to be polite and subtle if
both the persons are opposite to the expectation they are often ridiculed which increases the
aggression.

 Cultures do the demand of aggression to save their customs e.g., honor killings are when a
person who has tarnished the family honor is killed by other family members in an effort to
maintain their respect.
PERSONAL DETERMINANTS

 Aggression can happen when we feel that we are being threatened by others, and
thus personality variables that relate to perceived danger also predict aggression.
 Aggression is particularly logical among people who feel that they are being rejected
by whom they care about.
 People also differ in their general attitudes towards the appropriateness of using
violence. Some people are simply more likely to believe in the value of using
aggression as a means of solving problems.
 People with low self-esteem would be more aggressive than those with high self-
esteem. Research has found that individuals with unstable self-esteem are more
prone to anger and are highly aggressive when their high self-image is threatened.
SITUATIONAL DETERMINANT

 Heightened physiological arousal due to stress, anxiety, competition, extensive


exercise or disclosure to the films that produce arousal.
 Sexual arousal: minimal level of aggression takes place in presence of mild
sexual stimulation and stronger levels with excessive degree of stimulation.
 Physical pain may arouse aggressive urge but up to limits. Severe pain may
hamper aggression.
 Alcohol – aggressive response often powerful and simple; result is more
extreme, less moderated behavior; often weaker and more complex.
RESEARCHES
Psychologist Albert Bandura’s well known Bobo
doll experiment shows that observational learning
can also play a part in how aggression develops.
In this analysis kids who watched the video where
a grown up model acted forcefully toward a bobo
doll were bound to imitate those actions whenever
offered the chance.
Bobo doll explores showed that youngsters can
learn social behavior, for example, aggression
through the process of the observational learning
through watching the behavior of someone else.
The discoveries support Bandura’s (1977) Social
learning theory.

Link: https://youtu.be/6lYsmt9qUVI
Conclusion

Aggression is a learned behavior, not an in-built instinct. Learning can take place
in the absence of the reinforcement, only via observation and modelling.
Modelling is a strong and quick way of learning. Researchers say that those who
were exposed to the aggressive situations, or films can show enormous some of
aggression in their behavior.
It’s not necessary that the aggression should be in the form of physical abuse it
can also harm other or themselves via verbal abuse, mental abuse and hostility
etc.
Thankyou

You might also like