Artifact #1

Module 12’s item to archive was a questionnaire based on whether certain statements indicated aggression. It took me some time to fill out as I continuously went back and forth trying to decide if certain statements actually would show aggression. The one’s that I believed showed aggression had malicious intent. For example, A juvenile gang attacking members of another gang or a man viciously kicking a cat. However, I feel that there are different types of aggression but a spider eating a fly, for example, I do not feel shows aggression as it is a need for survival.

I learned from this assignment that from reading the chapter that aggression does not always involve emotions and that just because we may not see something like survival as aggression we cannot say what the other person is thinking during the time of killing and eating something to survive, especially in animals. In most cases I found the way that the statements were worded had me basing my decisions off whether it was aggressive or not but once I went back and read them thoroughly and gave some thought to them my answer changed. If the action was aggressive, regardless of their being emotional it could still be considered that was to some individuals.