perspectives in psychology

Perspectives in Psychology

In psychology aggression is an on going debate, to whether it is a learnt behaviour from our environment and our surroundings or on the other hand are we born with it, is it in our instinct to be aggressive.
( Lorenz 1966) believed that both animal and humans survived by having aggressive instincts to protect their young and terrority by this ensuring that only the strongest survived.
Sociologists believe that because in the world some where there is a war happening almost all of the time, that we have inherited an aggressive nature and that it’s becoming the normal approach to lash out at things that get in our way because we feel the need to control and dominate more.
In 1966 a man called Charles Whitman shot his wife, mother and 14 other people before turning the gun on him self, on autopsy doctors found a tumour in the limbic system in his brain. This is the part of the brain where aggression is found in animals. Also other research carried o...