Antisocial Interactions

1. Antisocial Interactions Chapter 12

2. Antisocial Interactions • What are antisocial interactions?

3. The Functions of Aggression- Ethological Perspective • Predatory • Intermale, spontaneous • Terror-induced • Irritable • Territorial Defense • Defense of Young • Instrumental • The Control of Aggression

4. A Dynamical Systems Approach • The Role of Genetic Make-up • The Role of Interactional History • The Role of Current Physiological Conditions • Current Environmental Condition Effects

5. The Development of Aggression • Early Childhood - Basic Training in the Home • Poor Parental Discipline & Monitoring • Leads to Child Conduct Problems • The Coercive Family Process (Patterson)

6. Coercive Family Process • 1) Constitutional Differences Among Children and Parents • 2) Inept Child Management • 3) Normal Aversive Give and Take • 4) Negative Reinforcement for Coercive Child Behavior • 5) Reinforcement Traps • 6)Escalation of Response Intensity • 7) Older Coercive Child • 8) Reciprocity • 9) Family Disruption

7. Middle Childhood • Rejection by Normal Peers • School Failure • Modeling of Aggressive Behaviors

8. Late Childhood & Adolescence • Commitment to Deviant Peer Group • Delinquency

9. Adulthood • Antisocial Personality

10. A Dynamical Systems View of Physical Child Abuse • Predisposing Factors • Precipitating Conditions • Mediating Responses • Behavioral Responses • Behavioral Outcomes (Consequences)

11. Dual Component Model of Physical Child Abuse (Vasta) • Component 1 - Operant Behavior negatively reinforced • Component 2 - Respondent Behavior elicited by beating