SPD – Adolescent Aggression and Social Cognition Flashcards
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Kenneth Dodge
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described five steps adolescents go through in processing information about their social world: decoding of social cues, interpretation, response search, selection of optimal response and enactment
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Sigmund Freud
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Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis.
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John Dollard
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he and his colleagues proposed the first major psychological model of aggression
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Neal Miller
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development of biofeedback, discovered that even the autonomic nervous system could be susceptible to classical conditioning, helped to integrate behavioral and psychoanalytic concepts
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Martin Hoffman
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traced development of empathy though 4 stages: 1) global empathy- at first year, babies cry at the sound of another infants cry. 2) egocentric empathy- babies actively attempt to conform another person who is in distress. 3) preschoolers can empathize with a wider range of feelings and, through the media, with people they have never met or with characters in a story. 4) middle school: children understand the relationship between others' emotions and their past histories.
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Graznya Kochanska
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committed compliance
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compliance based on the child's eagerness to cooperate with a responsive parent who has been willing to cooperate with him or her.
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situational compliance
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compliance based primarily on a parent's power to control the child's conduct.
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emotional autonomy
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where youth shift from depending on parents to getting emotional support from others, such as peers.
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behaviroal autonomy
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the ability to make decisions independently and to follow through on these decisions with actions.
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delay of gratification
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waiting for an appropriate time and place to engage in a tempting act
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impulsivity
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difficulty in controlling behaviors; acting without thinking first
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impulse control
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the ability to wait and think before acting or speaking
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self-regulation
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the exercise of voluntary control over the self to bring the self into line with preferred standards
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self-assertion
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expressing feelings and thoughts directly
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self-control
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Coping strategy in which someone regulates their feelings.
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self-regulation
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the process people use to control and change their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
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hostile aggression
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agrressive acts for which the perpertraitior's major goal is to harm or injure a victim.
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instrumental aggression
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aggressive acts for which the perpetraitor's major goal is to gain access to objects, space, or privleges.
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Freud's Psychoanalytic aggression theory
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idea that aggression is an innate personality characteristic common to all humans, thantos.
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instinctual theory
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Imitation is an innate tendency.
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aggressive cues
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Stimuli that have been associated in the past with actual aggression or violence and that will trigger aggression again
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Dollard and Miller's frustration/aggression theory
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frustration triggers aggression and that all aggressive acts can be traced to frustrations.
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Bandura's social learning
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results from watching, imitating and modeling others 1. Learning is thought observation and imitation 2. No external rewards 3. No behaviors required.
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social information-processing
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mental processes involved in understanding and responding to social events, that is reached through six congitive steps. 1. encode 2. interpret 3. formulate a goal 4. generate problem solving strategy 5. evaluate problem solving strategy 6. enact response
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behavioral aggression
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any action that delivers noxious stimuli to another organism.
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intentional aggression
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any action intended to harm or injure another living being who is motivated to avoid such treatment.
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Psychoanalytical and social learning explanation of aggressive behavior.
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Suggestions for aggressive behavior
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Types of information processing models that explain/describe aggressive behavior.
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difference between boys/girls and overt/relational aggression.
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difference in cultural/social class on a childs aggressive behavior.
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different ways researchers explain cultural/social class on aggressive behavior.
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how are same parenting styles more effective in one culture than another in helping children regulate their behavior.
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