| Term | Definition |
|---|
| absuse syndrome | Factors of proximity, stress and power that are associated with the cycle of abuse in some families |
| agenetic mode | State of mind thought by Milgram to charactarise unquestioning obedience, in which people transfer personal responsibility to the person giving orders |
| analogue | Something that is similar in some way to something else |
| biosocial theories | Biochemical, Neurological, Genetic, Evolutionary. |
| catharsis | A dramatic release of pent-up feelings; the idea that aggressive motivation is 'drained' by acting against a frustrating object (or substitute) or by vicarious experience |
| cathartic hypothesis | The notion that acting aggressively, or even just viewing aggressive material, reduces feelings of anger and aggression |
| collective aggression | Unified aggression by a group of individuals, who may not even know one another, against another individual or group |
| cultural norms | Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members |
| dehumanisation | the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities |
| deindividualisation | Process where people loose their sense of socialised individual identity and engage in unsocialised often antisocial behaviours |
| desensitisation | idea that constant media violence makes audience less sensitive to human suffering |
| disinhibition | The removal of inhibition; results in acting out behavior that normally would be restrained |
| ethology | study of natural or biological character |
| excitation-transfer model | The expression of aggression is a function of learned behaviour, some excitation from another source, and the persons interpretation of the arousal state |
| external validity | ability to widely generalize the results to other situations |
| fighting instinct | innate impulse to aggress which ethologists claim is shared by humans with other animals |
| frustration-aggression hypothesis | Theory that all frustration leads to aggression, and all aggression comes from frustration. used to explain prejudice and intergroup aggression |
| hate crime | a crime motivated by prejudice |
| institutionalised aggression | Aggression which is given formal or informal recognition and social legitimacty by being incorporated into rules and norms |
| two ways of learning by experience | Direct experience and Vicarious experience |
| level of explanation | The types of concepts, mechanisms and language used to explain a phenomenom |
| machismo | exaggerated masculinity |
| modelling | observing the behaviour of others and imitating it |
| neo-associationist analysis | A view of aggression according to which mass media may provide images of violence to an audience that later translate into antisocial acts |
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