Agression

• What is IRM?

  Innate Releasing Mechanisms
• What are FAP?

  Fixed Action Patterns
• What are Lea's suggested 6 main features of FAPs?

  Stereotyped, Universal, Unaffected, Ballistic, Single purpose,
• What does the Modal Action pattern suggest?

  Fixed action patterns are more flexible
• Who supports the Modal Action Pattern?

  Hunt - sequences of behaviours are greatly influenced by environmental factors and learning experiences
• What studies look a neural mechanisms as a factor of aggression?


  Gospic et al looked at the amygdala - Ultimatum game + Benzodiazepine Coccaro et al looked at the orbitofrontal cortex - psychiatric disorders