Distinction Between Aggression And Effective Behavior

A range of behaviors which can lead to both physical and psychological harm to oneself, other, or objects in the environment is known as aggression. There are a number of ways to express aggression, such as physically, mentally and verbally. The basic assumption of aggression is that all behaviors represent an attempt to adapt to the environment and survival and mastery/control are served as the two basic needs that encourage successful adaptation. And humans are not innately aggressive will be discussed after going through what is aggression.

The type of level of intent that causes an aggressive behavior creates the distinction between two types of aggression, instrumental and affective aggression. Instrumental aggression is intentional and

The roles of genes, hormones and neuromechanisms influence individual to behave aggressively. For example, males with high testosterone levels may be more prone to deal with challenges or obtain/maintain social status and dominance and aggressive responses when provoked because of the need to control. It is not the cause of aggression but is important for its expression. However, the overall gender difference in aggression behavior is small, only males have a higher tendency toward physical aggression than do females.

In addition, Gray has developed a comprehensive theory of how separate but interrelated neurobiological systems function in the brain to control a variety of human qualities and characteristics, it consists of three major systems: the fight or flight system (FFS), the behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and the behavioral approach system (BAS) and FFS is most strongly related to the impulse to

It is designed to get another person to comply and involves punishments usually, such as parent-child, work, and romantic.

From the above, we can see that aggression is influenced by many different factors, in spite of the neurological or evolutionary factors said to underlie aggression, biological factors simply does not mean “unavoidable”. Even if genes are fixed, the same does not necessarily follow for their behavioral effects, we can learn to modify and control the reaction.

People have the potential to choose to be aggressive or peaceful, for example, we are unconditionally full of joy and constantly want to explore and examine the world when we were a child. Aggressive human behavior, such as violence and competition does not seem to be drilled into the genes of humans, it seems to be a learned and cognitive behavior, dependent on the environment one is surrounded with. In addition, if we look at our mass media, movies and video games, violence is abundantly all around us. If we were able to compare a human being that was raised in a loving environment with one that was raised in a violent environment, the observed behavioral characteristics would both differ. This is similar to the idea of Berkowitz which mentioned above, we learned that aggression can reduce the frustration or other