DISCUSS THE ROLE OF NEURAL AND HORMONAL MECHANISMS IN HUMAN AGGRESSION Neurotransmitters are chemicals that enable impulses within the brain to be transmitted from one area of the brain to another. Serotonin is thought to reduce aggression by inhibiting responses to emotional stimuli that might otherwise lead to an aggressive response. Low serotonin in the brain has been associated with an increased susceptibility to impulsive behaviour‚ aggression and even violent suicide. A meta-analysis found that
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Institutional Aggression The term refers to collective violence E.g. violence within institutions such as prisons‚ students‚ police and army They are danger for both inmates and workers Benjamin Mogmat a member of ‘the number’ in a South African prison was sentenced to nine years. Now in prison he claims to have killed more inmates than he can remember. All to impress a gang. Initiation rituals One way institutions show aggression towards each other is through violent initiation rituals
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Institutional aggression AO1 Importation Model - Irwin and Cressey - claims inmates who enter prison with certain characteristics are more likely to engage in interpersonal violence than other inmates - violence in prisons isn’t a product of the institution itself but the characteristics of individuals who enter them - young rather than old and black not white more likely to have higher interpersonal violence as they ’import’ behaviours from their norms/culture/background - recognised the
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It has been shown that impulsive behavior and aggression have been associated with having low levels of serotonin. Evidence for the role of serotonin comes from the use of drugs that raise levels of serotonin in the brain‚ such as antidepressants. In clinical studies‚ antidepressant drugs which increase serotonin levels also tend to reduce irritability and impulsive aggression. This suggests that increased serotonin levels do lead to reduced aggression. Mann et all gave 35 healthy subjects dexfenfluramine
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Evolutionary (Darwinian) Medicine “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution” –Theodosius Dobzhansky Proximate vs. Ultimate Questions Biological causation: proximate vs. ultimate explanations Physiology‚ genetics‚ biochemistry‚ etc. generally concentrate on * proximate causation “What” & “How” questions Ultimate causation: How evolutionary processes (natural selection; adaptation) and evolutionary history shape traits “Why” questions Traits have both types
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Zack Period 5 Sports psych November 19th 2013 Aggression Essay Aggression is a natural human behavior‚ that is shown in many different ways depending on the people. Most are able to control it‚ but there will always be outliers in every situation. A big topic of discussion on aggression is if sports make us more aggressive than we should be‚ and if violent sports should be discouraged. A good example of aggressive and violent activity by an athlete is Michael Vick and his dog fighting
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affecting the survival rate of all of the colors. Identify at least two things that are unrealistic and two things that are realistic about this exercise. Two unrealistic things is‚ that it’s got a bit of random chance involved‚ and that since the humans are the prey‚ they aren’t colorblind. However‚ the camouflage is realistic‚ and the eye-grabbing colors are also realistic. What traits
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Evaluate explanations of institutional aggression (16 marks) Strengths In Irwin and Cressey (1962) study they don’t look at inmates having one value. They look at the subcultures within prison. This shows the nature of the inmates as well as how they were brought up and accept other values. This is also supported by Blomberg & Lucken (2000) study on inmates. However you could counter this point by saying its reductionist because it reduces down behaviour to measurable units. Weaknesses
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Hitler’s Aims Hitler aimed to make Germany into a great power again and this he hoped to achieve by: Destroying the hated Versailles settlement Building up the army Recovering lost territory such as the Saar (Alsace Lorraine) and the Polish Corridor Bringing all Germans within the Reich This last aim included the annexation of Austria and the acquisition of territory from Czechoslovakia and Poland‚ both which had large German minorities as a result of Versailles. Define: Lebensraum
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Hitting‚ kicking‚ pinching‚ stabbing and shooting are types of physical aggression (Anderson‚ 2016‚ pp. 59).” Aggression can be depicted in different forms. One example is verbal aggression‚ when an individual says something that is hurtful to another individual with the intent to hurt their feelings. Relational aggression is a form of aggression that involves the individual trying doing things without the other individual knowing with the intent to damage
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