Aggression Is a Word or Action Who's Intent Is to Hurt Someone – (baron, 1977)

"Aggression is a word or action who's intent is to hurt someone" – (Baron, 1977).

From this definition there are two types of aggression, hostile and instrumental. Hostile aggression is having intent to hurt someone and instrumental aggression is the use of violence to get something you want.

There are four main theories of aggression, after evaluating each we will question if situational or dispositional factors most attribute to aggression before highlighting which theory best accounts for aggression.

Aggression as an innate response & cognitive response are caused through dispositional factors

Two theorists that best promote this theory are Freud (1983) and Adler (1908). Alfred Adler introduced the psychoanalytic theory, this theory promotes that an individual attempts for a better achievement through aggressive means or forms such as fighting and harshness. Freud argued that all human being possess two important instincts; the life instinct (Eros) and the death instinct (Thanatos). The struggle of life and death instincts creates a build up of tension in our unconscious mind. The tension needs to be released. Failure to relieve these aggressive impulses may result in an outburst of uncontrollable aggression.

The evolutionary theory helps define aggression as an innate response or dispositional factor. Darwin proposed that this theory is similar to the psychoanalytic theory, in that aggression is understood to be instinctual. It has evolved for survival; organisms within an environment must compete with each other in order to survive. But this is more adaptive in males, who compete for resources and mates. This evolutionary theory suggests that aggression in humans is just like it is in many other animals. However in humans, the evolution of the frontal lobes has distinguished us from animals. In humans, the frontal lobes and in