Kathy's Father Was an Abusive Alcoholic and as a Result

question 247

Multiple Choice

Kathy's father was an abusive alcoholic and as a result of her early experience, Kathy has a distorted mental image of all fathers as being abusive people. According to a certain theory, there will be an unconscious influence on Kathy's future relationships with men. This view is represented by the:

• A) object relations theory
• B) Bandura's social cognitive theory
• C) Erik Erickson's life-span development approach
• D) humanistic theory

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