A Man Shows Little or No Reaction When Other Individuals

question 468

Multiple Choice

A man shows little or no reaction when other individuals provoke him. This continues for many years until finally one evening, he almost kills his neighbour after she unlocks the door to her apartment "too loudly." According to Megargee, this man would be said to have overcontrolled hostility and provides evidence most consistent with the __________ model of aggression.

• A)psychodynamic
• B)social learning
• C)biological
• D)evolutionary

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning process by which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Unconditioned Response

A natural, automatic reaction to a stimulus that occurs without any need for prior learning or conditioning.

Conditioned Response

is a learned reaction to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with an unconditioned stimulus through conditioning.

Pavlov

A Russian physiologist best known for his work in classical conditioning, particularly the concept of the conditioned reflex using dogs.