An important distinction between proactive and reactive aggression is the basic idea that proactive people use violence to get what they want out of life ; and example of this might be a child who bullies to get money games or candy (Raine, 2013). Proactive aggressive people plan ahead , they are regulated , controlled and driven y the reward that are either external and material or internal and psychological . According to author Raine Pro actives are cold blooded and dispassionate ; conversely Reactive aggressive persons are more of blooded individuals in the face of proactive stimulus . The cerebral areas responsible for proactive aggression is the prefrontal lobe specifically the ventral lobe which is a sub region of the prefrontal lobe . The reactive aggressive person has very little stimulus in the ventral region ; in contrast the preditory personality has very little prefrontal regulation activation.
The Theory of Personality designed by the Psychoanalyst Sigmond Freud catagorizes the stages of human development as (1) oral phase (2) anal phase (3) phalic sage , and the latency stage . The limbic system is the site of the emotions and the ore primitive parts of our neural makeup ; while the hippocampus moderates and regulates aggression and when stimulated sets in motion preditory attack .Social factors interact with biological factors factors to increase a propensity for violence they also moderate the relationship.
So what significance or rather correlation does developing either a proactive aggressive or reactive aggressive personality have to the stages of Sigmond Feuds theory ? When we analyze both in a gestaltic fashion . Lets view the following hypothesis : In general children learn much from the observation of modeled behavior .
Public Health Hypothesis using theory and clinical cephalic parenchyma regions .
we might predict that there should be a greater range of aggressive behavior among those children who watch the more aggressive programs, from exposure . Not necessarily. Why is this ? and what significance again does the stages of personality development have upon this premise; because as the author Raine accurately enunciates in her multiple studies , the childs brain completes its development by the age of six , this also correlates with the most significant concepts in Sigmond Freuds stages . The overarching rational is brain encoding by children ; where the child although cannot articulate by proxy learned behavior , this aggressive behavior whether proactive or reactive might be learned and encoded by such factors or exposure to factors in his or her immidiate environment by observing for example (1) care giver behavior (Parental behavior (3) characters in television ( 4) or even from others in their environment out side of the home setting . There for our hypothesis mentioned above would be either an alternate hypothesis ; but appears as a null one . The premisis stated in this minor analysis are both interesting and up for further study . Questions related to genetic variations that influence personality development as well as environmental exposure merit evaluation
References
Raine, A(2013) The Anatomy of Violence : The Biological Roots of Crime. Pantheon Books New York
Jung,J (1982) The Experimentors Challenge : Methods and Issues in Psychological Research . California State University
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