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

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Definitions:

Age of Reason

A developmental stage typically around the age of 7 when children start to use logic and recognize the difference between right and wrong.

Social Cognitive Theory

A cognitively oriented learning theory that emphasizes observational learning.

Dependent Variables

In an experimental setting, these are outcomes or variables that are expected to change due to the manipulation of independent variables.

Extinction

The cessation of a response that is performed in the absence of reinforcement.