Aggression

• What concepts explain aggression?

  Priming

  Schemas and scrips

  HAB - Hostile Attribution Bias
• How does priming explain aggressive behaviour?

  See aggressive prime - TV or environment

  Later see something linked to the prime

  Behave aggressively
• How do scripts and schemas explain aggression?

  They are formed from spending time in an aggressive environment - this causes us to create a schema about that place

  cue linked to aggression activates schema

  Causes us to act aggressive
• How does HAB explain aggression?

  HAB - thinking someone's behaviour is aggressive when its neutral

  Someone may accidentally bump into you and you think its deliberate so you act aggressively
• What are the strengths?

  Research evidence - Men listen to music with derogatory lyrics towards women were more aggressive towards women

  Reduce aggression - prisoners change HAB to neutral so they don't think someone's behaviour is always aggressive
• What are the weaknesses?

  not a direct link - aggressive schemas maybe created through being aggressive first not experiencing an aggressive environment