cognitive

• types of aggression are hostile, istrumental, relational
• hostile aggression is when you are reactive and impulsive and it is often physical but can be verbal or relational
• intrumental aggression is proactive where you use aggression to get what you want, planned
• relational aggression is indirect and not physical, it can be hostile such as swearing or an angry text or instrumental such as spreading gossip
• schemas of aggression are from experience, individuals can create schemas from experiences
• scripts for aggression is what we use to guide our behaviour in those situations as they are stored in memory until environmental cues trigger them
• cognitive priming for aggression is when a person is more likely to act aggressively when something aggressive or makes them angry is present
• priming with aggression is when a stimulus is linked to aggression, a person shows aggressive behaviour unconsciously
• hostile attribution bias is when people tend to interpret other people behaviour as threatening or aggressive even if its neutral
• a strength to the explanation of aggression from cognirive approach is that there is experimental support for the role of cognitive factors on aggression such as media have been found to prime aggressive attitudes and behaviours
• a weakness of the explanation of aggression from cognitive approach is that there is correlation not causation meaning it shows a correlation between cognitive factors and aggression but many not be the cause of aggression