Personal Statement: See Aggression

The article See Aggression...Do Aggression discusses aggression, which is the biggest social problem facing America and the entire world. The article delves deeper into the question of why people are aggressive. Psychologists have theoreticized that aggression may stem from genetics or pent up frustration, but the most common and accepted is the theory that aggression is learned. This final reason for aggression is what prompted Bandera, a founder of the “social learning theory” and his team, Dorothea and Sheila Ross, to conduct “the Bobo doll study.”

There are seven behaviors that promote learning. They are grit, curiosity, self-control, social intelligence, zest, optimism and gratitude. All seven of these behaviors are great for in school. But the behavior I consider most for my learning is grit.

The behavior most important to me is Grit. I would really like to pursuit my goals this school year.

Childhood aggression results in 35% of mental hospital expenditures (Rathert, Pederson, Fite, Stoppelbein, and Greening). It is a growing concern among many areas of healthcare. Childhood aggression has posed a serious problem among many professionals and parents, but professionals are still researching on the causes of childhood aggression.

Every night on the news there are reports about murders, wars, and rapes. But the news isn't the only place where people encounter violent or aggressive behavior. Driving home from work, people get cut off and cussed at on a daily basis. At school, children fight over who will be the first in the lunch line. On the street, people get pushed out of the way if they are not walking fast enough. The list could go on and on and on. The point is that humans exhibit aggressive behavior on a regular basis. However, does anyone know why people display these behaviors? Why do certain people seem more aggressive? Is there just one thing that controls when and how aggressive someone becomes? These are

Words can be misconstrued in many ways, human beings perceive words differently based on circumstance, knowledge of the language or how the words are presented such as the tone they are said in. Many times on talk shows or news programs words are said to provide a shock value therefore picking a more harsh synonym for the word purposely. Specifically in topics that are viewed as controversial, the “hot button” topics, presenters try to gather the most amount of views and attention and start debates. However due to those buzz words viewers tend to get a biased opinion and tend to leave uninformed angry about a topic they know little about but now have a very strong opinion on. In the short clip from CNN both presenters stayed on one particular

I find myself procrastinating, making excuses, indulging in unwarranted tasks, whilst it was inherent that the task I must be focusing though not my usual style of when comes to studying

There are seven behaviors that promote learning. They are grit, curiously, self control, social intelligence, zest, optimism and gratitude. The behavior that I consider most important to my learning is grit.

The first article I read was, “Everday Aggression Takes Many Forms.” There are many things that really caught my interest in this article and I am really glad that I chose to read it. The main basis of the article was how people intentionally hurt others daily due to their aggression and how it happens. This really is helpful in knowing how we can stop doing these sorts of things to others and how to help others do the same.

Aggression is one of the most researched topics in psychology and due to its many contributing factors, it's difficult to accurately define. It has been wondered if aggression is inherited or learned, specifically in children. In 1961 one of the most influential studies, conducted by Albert bandura and his associates Dorothea Ross and Sheila Ross became known as "the Bobo doll study". There was a control group of young children as well as 8 others divided by an aggressive or nonaggressive model (both male and female), gender and exposure to same or opposite sex models. They were then taken to a play room and would watch the models interact with the toys. The aggressive model became violent with the Bobo doll in the room and this was shown

Aggression is defined as the overt behavior of initiating hostilities or launching attacks. In psychology, aggression relates to many different types of behavior. Originally, aggressive behavior is defined as one person is intended to injure or irritate another people. However, it is difficult to know or to measure if a person's behavior is intentional, especially in children. Hence, when researchers carry out studies on aggression, the operational definition of aggression is often referred to the behavior that injures or irritates another person. Aggression behaviors are caused by many factors, such as social and environmental. People often associate aggression with the nature of human. There were two arguments on this nature; one

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.

People have many behavioral characteristics that combine to create unique individuals. A behavioral characteristic that exist in all people is aggression. Aggression is defined as a hostile or violent behavior towards another. Humans use aggression for the purpose angry retaliation to attack the enemy, or vengeance. The idea of aggression also perfectly shapes the gothic genre as a whole. In many horror novels, films and paintings, aggression is usually the main idea or the focal point. The theme of aggression is shown in the story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, the film Purge: Anarchy and the painting of “The stoning of Saint Stephen” by Harmensz Rembrandt.

In cities, suburban areas and even small towns, people are fearful and concerned that violence has permeated the fabric of their communities and degraded the quality of their lives (Albert J. Reiss). There is aggression everyday and it can be seen in all different forms. Where ever you go there will be some type of aggression. While doing research, I learned new things about psychological aggression and affects aggression has on people.

Aggression plays a significant role in the survival of many organisms. Studies have shown that aggression may be an evolved behavior to overcome certain adaptive problems (Buss & Duntley, 2006; Buss & Shackelford, 1997). Aggression is often used to acquire resources, protect mates and offspring, and to warn off predators and to hunt prey. Even though, aggression has proved to be useful for the survival of many organisms it is still a costly behavior to express. Aggression can often result in the injury or death of organisms that use this behavior. Due to the high risks associated with aggressive behaviors, it is possible the brain may have evolved certain mechanisms to control the expression of this behavior (Wong et al., 2016).