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:

Authority

The power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience, or a person or organization having such power.

Contract

A legal agreement between two or more parties that creates mutual obligations enforceable by law.

Liable

Legally responsible or obligated to someone or something, often used in the context of legal judgments or debts.

Disclosed Principal

A principal whose identity is known to a third party. The third party is aware that the agent is making an agreement on behalf of the principal.