Psychology has a variety of complementary yet incomplete perspecitives that help us understand behavior. How might cognitive explain aggression?
Psychology has a variety of complementary yet incomplete perspecitives that help us understand behavior. How might cognitive explain aggression?
Let us first understand what the terms 'Cognitive psychology' and 'aggression' means:
Psychology is the study of human behavior. It studies aspects such as learning, memory, group behavior, thinking, emotions, motivation, personality, psychological disorders, etc. It includes various areas such as Clinical, Counseling, Cognitive, Sports, Industrial, Media, Forensic psychology, etc. Each area studies and deals with a particular aspect of human behavior. Cognitive psychology deals with "the study of language, problem-solving, thinking, attention, memory, etc". Aggression is an activity that is engaged in by a person to harm another person. It is observable. Some psychologists believe that it is innate while some believe that it is caused by the factors that are present in the environment.
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