intro lesso to slt

1. PSYA3:
“ Introduction to A2
Psychology
What is aggression?”

2. Thinking 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.

3. 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.

4. 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?

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

6. London riots

7. 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:
Psychodynamic
Biological
Behavioural
Cognitive
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.

8. Homework watch the youtube clip before next lesson
Full title - The Brain: A Secret History - Emotions; Bandura Bobo Doll Experiment

9. The Brain: A Secret History - Emotions; Bandura Bobo Doll Experiment –
You tube Clip Homework Questions
Answer 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?