Aggressive Behavioral Psychology

at are the Strengths and Weaknesses of Observational, and Experimental Studies on Children’s Aggressive Behaviour?

The causation of violent behavior within a person can be caused by the following causes; biological causes, psychological causes, sociological causes and anthropological causes. The biological factors refer to the wide array of neurological, physiological, or chemical influences on aggression and violence. Child development researchers have found links between aggression and brain damage resulting from a variety of environmental factors, these include toxic materials found in the environment, traumatic head injury, dietary deficiencies, alcohol and drug ingestion by the mother during critical fetal developmental stages, and birth trauma. The psychological causes of violence study the human mind and its functions, affecting behavior, such as

The goal of this paper is to research information about the connection of various factors that contribute to Physical Aggression in children. Gathered information from five different sources that show the contributing factors link to this aggression has a lot to do with genetics and environment. The research, however, differ when it comes to the breakdown of different age groups and how they come about becoming physically aggressive. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009) suggest that lack of attention to physical aggression during early childhood is the result of why blame is put on social influences in early

There has been extensive amounts of research on the human processes that involve the brain. An increasing amount of studies determined differences, in regards to the brain, both structurally and chemically between the two genders. In recent years, a number of neuroimaging studies have investigated the neural bases of aggression and violent behaviors. To study the development of aggression, as well as the reasons behind it, is critical as aggressive behaviors are often associated with problematic outcomes such as delinquency, substance abuse, criminal offences and related problems of psychosocial malfunction (Barber & Weichold 2007). One of the most profound stereotypes associated with this topic states that male individuals are predominantly more aggressive than female individuals, especially in terms of physical aggression. In order to understand the differences in such behaviors, it is crucial to understand the origin of neural anatomy in aggression and violent behaviors. There has been significant progress in the understanding of the area of which men and women differ in their biopsychological processes.

There have been two theories that have tried to explain childhood aggression. The first theory is the proactive aggression. This theory has been linked to an externalizing behavior, which is connected to delinquent and violent behavior. The second theory is the regressive theory. This theory is best linked to frustration, which when a person gets frustrated with something, this

This is not to deny, however, that there is a relationship between aggression and biological influences. Complex neural systems in the brain when stimulated electrically or chemically can promote aggressive behaviors. Similar effects are noted with certain types of head injuries. Head injury victims may react with rage distinct from ordinary anger (Rosenbaum, Hoge, Adelman, Warnken, Fletcher, & Kane, 1994). Their rage may

Prior to this study, no other research had studied the genetic and environmental influences on reactive and proactive aggression. The purpose of this study was to explain how much genes and (shared and non-shared) environmental factors each contribute to aggression, specifically proactive and reactive. Once a positive correlation between the two types of aggression was determined, a “sub-purpose” was to find out if any correlation was due to another common factor, such as physical aggression. And, which factors are unique to proactive aggression and which are unique to reactive aggression.

My favorite chapter is the aggression chapter, because there is more than one way to define aggression. When the chapter talks about aggression and the biological phenomenon, how the philosophers debated on whether aggression is due to society, or that society should be credit for human brute. Furthermore, how Freud thought that aggression came from a self-destructive impulse, or how neural, genetic, and biochemical influences also play a part in aggression. I also liked how this chapter talked about that aggression is a learned behavior, when the chapter talked about Albert Bandura’s social learning theory, and the experiment of the bobo dolls. However, what made me like this chapter even more, was the group discussion in class about the

There are many factors affecting our pet’s aggressive behavior at home including: environment, time spent with the owners, breed, diet, being neutered/spayed, being kept outside or inside, but most importantly the size (Hsu & Sun, 2010). In addition, this article will discuss dog aggression in the household, and whether it is innate to the breed or there might be triggers for this behavior and how it can be corrected (Casey, Loftus, Bolster, Richards, & Blackwell, 2012).

Since most of the previous studies focused on child aggression in general without making a clear distinction between reactive and proactive aggression, it is important to focus on the potential relationship between interpretational and attentional bias and reactive aggression in an adult population. The primary goal of the current study is to examine whether participants who score high on a reactive aggression have an attentional and interpretational bias that differs from individuals who score low on reactive aggression. Moreover, most previous studies only focused on behavioral measurers, and therefore it might be of additive value to study electro-cortical reflection of both the attentional and interpretational bias, in order to understand

First and foremost, studies had shown that some adults are inherently aggressive and demonstrated a tendency of disciplining their children through corporal punishment, by spanking with open hands, or cane. In the case of severe punishment, such as kicked or beaten, it will not only causes physical injuries but also emotional harm on children. Based on genetic studies of aggression, numerical data from General Aggression factor addressed the innate aggression included both physical and nonphysical aggressive

Physical assault and aggression is the second leading cause of death among 14 to 17 year olds, next to vehicular accidents (Loeber). But why are humans so aggressive in the first place? There are two sides of the debate: Nature, and Nurture. Some say that it’s human nature, genetics that cause most behaviors, while others say that we act as we learned during childhood. This argument applies to aggression as well. Aggression is mainly caused by things during childhood and adolescence where people learn from various sources about aggression, although, human psychology plays a slight factor.

There are clearly no simple genetic or hormonal factors that can explain the variation in aggressive in males and females. Studies of human males suggest that there is at most a small genetic component to aggression, but a greater one for personality traits associated with such behavior. The biological mechanisms translating the message in the genes into antisocial or criminal behavior are not known. Therefore, there is clearly no simple aggressive gene effect. Many genes are likely to be involved, and each may have a weak effect on aggressive behavior. A direct genetic effect on aggression, for example, may determine how quickly an individual responds to aggravation. Aggression may also be influenced indirectly; for example, a man's size and strength may affect the way he behaves and how others react to him. (Turner, 253)

“Aggression” is a common term and a key concept when it comes to the study of human behaviour. Aggression is different from anger. It is with no doubt that everyone will have experienced anger at some point in their lifetime and this anger may have been channelled into various forms including violence. The level of violence is variable and can even at times lead to murder.

Prior learning of behavioural concepts and principles, I considered the functions of aggressive, disturbance, challenging behaviours of the mental health patients that I encountered during my mental health clinical practical only from the medical perspectives instead of also considering from the behavioural perspectives. I thought that administration of medications, restraints, seclusion and increased observations of the problem behaviours were the only solution to control problem behaviours to protect serious harm to patients who are at risk of damaging their own reputation and others. I can now see that the current practice of the nurses in management of aggressive behaviour was trying to eliminate the negative behaviours through negative