Six-Year-Old Jean Hits Another Child and Steals the Child's Lunch

question 36

Multiple Choice

Six-year-old Jean hits another child and steals the child's lunch money.A psychologist who takes a psychodynamic approach would suggest that Jean ____.

• A) learned that hitting someone would result in a reward
• B) has an unconscious drive for aggression, causing her to act out
• C) asserted herself, an example of bettering herself as a person
• D) hit the child for food, an adaptive mechanism to survive