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Critically consider the view that aggression can be explained in social psychological terms.
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'One of the achievements of social psychology has been in extending explanations of aggression and violence away from merely being reflections of the inner state of individuals' Critically consider the view that aggression can be explained in social psychological terms. There many ways of explaining aggressive behaviour in humans. Some theories view aggression as an important part of our evolutionary heritage , others as an imbalance in hormones or neurotransmitters in the brain. Early psychological theories of aggression explained aggressive behaviour as an automatic consequence of personal frustration. Social learning theories see the cause of our aggressive behaviour as arising out of our interactions with others in our social world. Social psychologists claim that aggressive behaviour can be learnt through direct experience derived from Skinner's principles of operant reinforcement. In other words, if a child pushes another child and as a result gets what they want then the actions is reinforced and they...
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