1. Why do you get angry? How do you express your anger?

2. SWBAT compare theories of aggression.

3.  Rank these in the order of funniest.

8. This time rank these images on what you find the most aggressive/violent

9.  What was the relationship between the funniest comic strip and the most aggressive?  Do you find slapstick comedy funny? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIwTYL1fwJk  When someone falls or get hurts do you laugh?  Why do you think this is???

10.  Do you think acts of aggression are different for different sexes?

11. Hostile aggression - behavior intended to harm another, either physically or psychologically, and motivated by feelings of anger and hostility Instrumental aggression - behavior intended to harm another in the service of motives other than pure hostility (for example, to attract attention, acquire wealth, and to advance political and ideological causes) Which sounds worse? Why?

12.  A student is angry and punches someone for getting in their way.  A student has been getting bullied and hates the school he comes to school with a gun.  A government official is angry and shoots a citizen.  A government official wants to win a position and kills his opponent.

13.  Do you think people are naturally good or naturally bad?

14.  Freud believed that people were naturally aggressive, or it was innate (inevitable). In order to control this aggressive instinct people do things to reduce the tension or “get it out of their system.”  Recent ideas think aggressive sports or aggressive movies help to reduce aggressive behaviors in people. What do you think?

15.  Freud tested his theory and found that most people found aggressive comic strips more humorous than non-aggressive comic strips.

16.  This was the common view point of aggression until Albert Bandura’s experiments  Bandura was a Social learning Psychologist. Social Learning  When we observe Behaviors around us and we imitate Those.

17.  Bandura wanted to explain aggressive behaviors so he created an experiment with a bobo doll. Where kids watched adults exhibit aggressive behavior to the bobo doll.  What do you think the kids did?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqNaLerMNOE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqNaLerMNOE

18.  Write two paragraphs on what you learned today…. (Is violence socially learned or innate)  1 st paragraph comparing two theories of aggression  2 nd explaining which theory you agree with more. Provide 2 examples that we either learned about or from your own experiences that help support the theory.

20.  April, 20 th 1999 one of the first school shootings in US history occurred.  Michael Moore filmed a documentary examining those instances. We will watch. As watching answer the questions.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAouWXzi-1Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAouWXzi-1Q

21.  What are the major issues that Moore highlights?  Based on what Moore was saying, what have people attributed to violence?  What theories of aggression that we have learned about does that agree with? (innate or learned?)  Do you think these situation are linked?

22.  Virginia Tech  Sandy Hook  What do you think are the causes?  Can we prevent them from happening?

23. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyyWMoH OQPY Do you agree? Are gun’s your right and way of protecting yourself?