Jason Is Playing with His Brother's New Skateboard When He

question 55

Multiple Choice

Jason is playing with his brother's new skateboard when he runs it into a wall and breaks it into pieces. Psychoanalysts would maintain that the destruction of the skateboard was

• A) just an accident.
• B) probably determined by some unconscious desire in Jason to ruin his brother's new toy.
• C) a conscious free choice made by Jason right before he ran it into the wall.
• D) caused by the environmental conditions.

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Definitions:

Instrumental Learning

A learning process that uses rewards and punishments to promote or discourage a behavior, also known as operant conditioning.

Observational Learning

A learning process where an individual acquires new behaviors by watching and imitating others.

Habituation

the process by which an organism decreases or ceases its response to a stimulus after repeated or prolonged exposure.

Classical Conditioning

The teaching technique where, through the continuous association of two stimuli, a reaction that is initially caused by the second stimuli is later caused by the first stimuli on its own.