While She Was 17, Trina Purchases a Laptop Computer

question 13

Essay

While she was 17, Trina purchases a laptop computer. Discuss the implications of her actions as to whether she can disaffirm the contract of purchase if she: (a) tries to sell the computer one year later; (b) continues to use the computer for eighteen months; or (c) has not yet made all of the payments when she turns 18, but continues to make monthly payments.

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Definitions:

Primitive Side

The aspect of a person's psyche that contains the basic impulses, desires, and instincts inherited from early ancestors.

Biological Drives

Innate impulses that direct or motivate behaviors necessary for survival, such as hunger, thirst, and reproduction.

Personality

An individual's characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms behind those patterns.

Temper Tantrums

Emotional outbursts, typically seen in children, that are characterized by yelling, crying, and sometimes physical behaviors like kicking or hitting.