Social Psychology: The Four Theories Of Aggression

Group is a social unit that consist of two or more people who interact with each other over time, establishing group identity, patterns of interaction, shared goals, and rules or norms governing behavior. The common types of groups are family, classmates, sports team, and co-workers.

We can see that the local computer store used the lure technique on Steve to purchase the computer. There are couple of other techniques like low-ball and free gift techniques. First, in the law-ball technique, it offers an attractive deal and then changes the term or the deal to be less desired. Whereas the lure technique, similar to low-ball technique, offers an attractive deal and then changes the item to a different or less desirable product. Second, in the

First, the death instinct, can also be described as inherent urge for violence. It states that this approach is occupied by the theories of evolution; by being aggressive, some members of species are able to survive, whereas those not being aggressive, will not be able to survive. Second, frustration-aggression hypothesis states that every frustration leads to some form of aggression, and every form of aggression is due to frustration. However, aggression can arise without frustration and that frustration doesn’t always cause aggression. It is possible that people can be aggressive if they have high level of frustration; if the frustration is arbitrary, unprovoked, or illegitimate. In another way, people will be less aggressive if their frustration is justifiable. Third, aversive emotional arousal hypothesis states that aggression is caused by negative emotions such as anger or discomfort. This aggression is used to reduce or eliminate the cause of the negative emotion. Finally, the social learning theory is an aggressive behavior that is only used as a means to get something and done by

In contrast, a back-stage setting refers to times and places when those people one wishes to impress favorably are not present. In a back-stage setting, people do not have to engage actively in efforts at impression management. Instead, they can relax, "be themselves," and do things they might not want members of the audience to see. Audience is the group of spectators at a public event, listeners or viewers. Self-presentation refers to the processes that individuals use to influence the impressions others have of them. Tactical self-presentation occurs when people try to create a public image of themselves that is consistent with what others want them to be. Ideal self-presentation occurs when individuals try to influence others to see themselves as they would like to be seen. In college, a college student in a classroom might use the tactical self-presentation method to try to portray a public image of themselves that coincides with the social expectation. Another example could be, a student among friends may display the ideal self-presentation method to try to be seen by others the way the individual wants to be seen; possibility of wearing the newest fashions to be seen as a trendy