PSYA3:

“ Introduction to A2

Psychology

What is aggression?”

Lesson ObjectivesThinking Ladder…

• To know and understand what aggression is.

• To apply differing psychological approaches to aggression.

• To rate how far each approach explains aggression in your own opinion.

Success Criteria

How will I know if I am learning?

By the end of the lesson…E Will be able to define the meaning of

aggression.

C Will be able to outline one or more approach to aggression in their own words.

A Will be able to compare two or more approaches as explanations of aggression.

Aggression

What is aggression?

With the person sitting closest to you, mark with a tick or a cross which of the behaviours are aggressive in your opinion.

Now look back over your answers – can you identify what features seem to be important for behaviour to be described as aggressive?

Dictionary definition

Behaviour whose primary or sole purpose or function is to injure another person or organism, whether physically or psychologically.

London riots

In your groups you are going to try and explain the recent riots across England, using one of the psychological approaches you studied last year:

PsychodynamicBiologicalBehaviouralCognitive

With one of these explain the behaviour, and also assess the strengths and limitation of this explanation. Use any resources that you have / can find

Feedback in 15 minutes to the rest of the class.

Homework watch the youtube clip before next lesson

Full title - The Brain: A Secret History - Emotions; Bandura Bobo Doll Experiment

The Brain: A Secret History - Emotions; Bandura Bobo Doll Experiment – You tube Clip Homework QuestionsAnswer the questions in your exercise book. Show it as homework.

1) What year did Bandura carry out his first study? 2) What was the wide-spread view of American society at the time

regarding T.V violence? 3) What age were Bandura’s subjects? 4) What behaviour did the adult in the procedure display? 5) What percentage of the children copied the adult’s aggressive

behaviour? 6) What condition produced the closest imitation of the adult

behaviour? 7) How did Bandura’s later study, carried out two years later

differ from the initial one?8) Social Learning Theory is a behaviourist theory. How does it

differ from operant conditioning?