Evolution Of Human Aggression ( The Nature Of Things )

This is due to the extreme influence that our culture has. With so many negative topicalities floating around on the daily, it is only natural to assume that the young generation is going to pick up on it. Unfortunately, this is not an issue that can instantaneously be cured or coped with. In fact, the Psychol Bull (2007) says that “early aggressive behavior is an indicator of future aggressive behaviors.” Patience is a key in helping cope with something like this, and we must try to understand how this aggression continues to affect our society. An issue that has always been prominent in today’s world is physical punishment. As parents continue to non-verbally teach their kids a lesson with methods such as “spanking”, a door to future aggression is being opened. The Pediatrics Journal (2011) says that “Children who are spanked show more aggressive behavior towards their peers.” These current trends in data leave us wondering what us as a society needs to do in order to prevent anger at such a young age. When we grow up, it is natural for us to go through changes, and being moody more than often is one of them. When the stress of growing up hits us all at once, we tend to lash out and blame others. This is not the case in current day adolescents. At such a young age, social stress is not yet an issue. Outside

Aggression is a natural part of human behavior, and can even be adaptive in certain situations. However, when aggression manifests itself in violent behaviors, it becomes problematic. Patterns of aggression change throughout childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, and these changes usually differ between males and females (Loeber, 1997). Physical aggression is typically greatest early in life and decreases during adolescence, whereas more serious violence tends to increase with age, particularly during adolescence (Loeber, 1997). Despite the changes that occur in aggressive tendencies throughout childhood and adolescence, aggression is seen as a very stable trait, almost as stable as

During our lifetime every one of us feels anger and aggression occasionally, some more than others, maybe as a child in the play ground or later as an adult when somebody cuts you up when you are driving along. But what causes anger and aggression and why do we all suffer from it? Well there are lots of different theories to what causes aggression and where aggressive behaviour comes from. So throughout this essay I will examine the different concepts and theories from different psychologist and develop and show an understanding of Aggression

People may wonder the reasons as to why so many juveniles are being found committing as many harmful crimes that they are in today’s society. There is a list of reasons that the ACS Distance Education organization has listed to being factors as to why juveniles may be committing crimes or becoming more susceptible for it. In their lists they name peer pressure, peer involvement in problem behavior, lack of supervision, criminal parents, lack of discipline, family income, drug or alcohol abuse, mental illness, family conflict, opportunity for crime, and poor education. There may be several other reasons that juveniles are becoming active in crime but these are the main ones that stick out (ACS, 2014). Teens can often find themselves interacting with the “wrong crowd” and find themselves engaging in acts that may be new to them that are also illegal. If a juvenile allows themselves to interact and engage in those activities then they will begin to duplicate what they see and commit the same criminal acts. Parents and

The first reason why the nurture side of the debate provides more evidence towards understanding violent behavior is due to the fact that children learn violence through parents and other adults in their life. The first way children learn is that they imitate behavior that they

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child . . . . . “(I Corinthians 13:11, King James Version). Children are unique and there are no two children that are alike. They are different in their thinking and their actions. I have been working with children for over twenty-one years and I have notice that the behavior in children appear to be more aggressive. I believe that if the children’s behavior is corrected early than it can be manage when they are older. Therefore, if we build trusting relationships, teach the children self-control in the early years and help the families find intervention, and then our children will become productive citizens and make a difference in their community.

Since the beginning of time, in Genesis, Cain showed aggression toward his brother Able. Aggression takes many forms, because of jealousy, insecurity, anxiety, revenge, antisocial personality, alcohol, and drugs. Even though all individuals are uniquely different, they all experience frustrations, but for different reasons. For example, almost everyone becomes frustrated with a computer, some literally destroy the inept machine, but not everyone takes out their aggression on the equipment. Not all aggression is violent. Psychologically mature people generally have better self-control over their frustrations and do not let them escalate. Some people are immature or antisocial and are unable to handle the normal frustrations of everyday life. Many individuals who display antisocial behavior also tend to show no remorse after doing anything wrong like, Lizzy Borden in 1892 (Bible)(brainposts.blogspot.com).

Kids that grow in an environment surrounded by violence also become violent. If a kid sees his dad hitting his mom he/ she will thing that it is ok to hit others. And they will imitate that behavior. Parents who punch and yelled at their children are only setting up a pattern. And violence only brings more violence. Kids should grow in an environment where they are treated with respect and with love.

Various studies have shown physical aggression linked to different factors contributing to an individual's behavior at different ages. However, there are different studies that contradict and suggest that these behaviors are involuntary when in the infancy stage. Keenan et al. (1998) conducted research directed towards toddlers and pre-school age children to identify behavior problems. Rousseau (2009) argues that the outcome of ignoring physical aggression at a young age primarily results in the blame being put on social influences in early adolescence. In contrast to these two studies there is a study that suggest children learn these behaviors from others through observational learning. Another study suggest that behavior problems arise when puberty starts to evolve and the timing of menarche. This paper investigates the different studies to provide more information and understanding about physical aggression in children and the effects on

The lacking role of parental figures, mostly the father figure, leads children every day to self-loathing, behavior problems, poor academic performance, commitment of crimes, etc. Children, mostly boys, that grow up with that lack of a father role usually go more towards being the everyday criminals if they don’t have a sense of discipline, or if they don’t know right from wrong.

Violence take multiple forms, many of which are covered in the nightly news. Murder, rape, familial abuse, bullying, workplace hostility, armed robbery—all of these are societal problems with far-reaching repercussions. There have long debates and discussions regarding whether nature or nurture influences individual violent behavior. People are concerned about what makes an individual to engage in violent behavior such murder or burglary among other types of crimes. They are also concerned about what makes people stop such behavior. However, there is no precise conception whether nature, nurture or both influence violence. Some people assume that, violent behavior results from individual’s life experiences or upbringing also known as nurture. Others feel that violent behavior is more complex and results from individual’s genetic character or nature. In other words, it is not clear whether violent behavior is inborn or occurs at some point in persons’ lives, but even it’s hard, emphasizing one and ignoring other influences is always an unwise way to go.

My first argument is parents are not the cause of their child’s behavior. Kim Abraham, a therapist who has worked with families and children for over twenty-five years, says that even though parents take care of them and

Around 800,000 youngsters a year may require expulsion from their home, as indicated by the American Institute of Pediatrics. Allegations of physical or sexual misuse of the kid, substance misuse with respect to the guardian or essential parental figure, or disregard may make a youngster set into child care. At times, a juvenile's rehashed run-ins with the law may bring about situation into child care, as indicated by the Oregon Youth Power, on the assumption that the immature's guardians can't or unwilling to administer and apply control over the kid's conduct. These circumstances may keep folks from constantly recovering authority of their kids.

I also do not think that we can shelter our children from violence and negative behaviors they learn from others since many invalidating, and influential factors are part of our world and our reality. In any case, one thing I know without a doubt is that we, as parents (or even as adults), we can be good role models. We can model proper emotional control and anger management. We can teach our children how to express their emotions and sentiments (both positive and negative). We can demonstrate that people can be assertive without being aggressive. We can also model effective problem-solving skills that can help them with their frustration. We can't supervise our children 24/7 because they will see and learn things outside our home, but we can

I agree that these young kids are coming out even worse. They start to resent the system once they get out which only leads to other crimes and hate towards authority. It’s unfortunate that the system has to play the parenting role, but their criminal acts generally relate to their environment and lack of parenting. Sometimes it is unavoidable. I was a troubled teen, but I never committed illegal acts. My father would always say “if you continue misbehaving, you will be sent to boot camp”. It only made me mad and I felt it was a threat to be punished harshly. My mother approached me differently. She would ask me, “What’s wrong, how can I help, what is causing you to behave this way?” I felt that she wanted to help, instead of punishing me which made me think about my actions. She would always get sad when I misbehaved instead of mad. It made me feel bad which made me improve morally. A lot don’t realize that the sympathy card really does work. A juvenile doesn’t just get up one morning and say to him or herself, “I am going to commit a crime today”. Something else leads to that type of activity. According to an article written by Susan Adams, an authoritarian style