| Term | Definition |
|---|
| cycle of violence | the transmission of domestic violence across generations |
| desensitization | reduction in emotion-related physiological reactivity in response to a stimulus |
| cultivation | the process by which the mass media (particulary TV) construct a version of social reality for the public |
| hostile attribution bias | the tendency to perceive hostile intent in others |
| mitigating information | information about a person's situation indicating that he or she should not be held fuly responsible for aggressive actions |
| weapons effect | the tendency of weapons to increse the likelihood of aggression by their mere presence |
| cognitive neoassociation analysis | the view that unpleasant experiences create negative affect, which in turn stimulates associations connected with anger and fear. emotional and behavioral outcomes then depend, at least in part, on higher-order cognitive processing |
| arousal-affect model | the proposition that aggression is influenced by both the intensity or arousal and the type of emotion produced by a stimulus |
| frustration-aggression hypothesis | the idal that (1) frustation always elicits the motive to aggress and (2) all aggression is caused by frustration |
| displacment | aggressing against a substitute targer because aggressive acts against the source of the frustration are inhibited by fear of lack of access |
| catharsis | a reduction of the motive to aggress that is said to result from any imagined, observed, or actual act of aggression |
| social learning theory | the theory that behavior is learned through the observation of others as well as through the direct experience of rewards and punishments. |
| aggression | behavior intended to harm another individual |
| instrumental aggression | inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value |
| emotional aggression | inflicting harm for its own sake |
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