We Are Most Likely to Displace Our Aggression onto a Target

question 131

Multiple Choice

We are most likely to displace our aggression onto a target that is

• A)nothing like the person who provoked our anger in the first place.
• B)similar to the person who provoked our anger in the first place.
• C)helpless to retaliate in kind.
• D)nonhuman.

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Definitions:

Single Morpheme

The smallest meaningful unit of language that cannot be divided into smaller parts.

Phonemes

The basic units of sound in a language that distinguish one word from another, e.g., the difference between the "p" in "pat" and the "b" in "bat".

Function Morphemes

Words or affixes that provide grammatical relationships between words in a sentence but do not have explicit meanings by themselves.

Nonsense Syllables

A string of sounds that do not form meaningful words, used in psychological experiments to study memory and learning processes, avoiding the influence of prior knowledge.