Define cognitive scripts and how they may be applied in situations where spontaneous violence could occur.

What will be an ideal response?


Cognitive scripts are learned and memorized through daily experiences. People who learn scripts that normalize aggression or violence and repeat those scripts throughout life will be more likely to incorporate those and reach for those scripts during moments of physiological arousal.

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