Five-Year-Old Nicholas Just Learned the Rhyme, "Step on a Crack

question 27

Multiple Choice

Five-year-old Nicholas just learned the rhyme, "Step on a crack, break your mother's back." His mother won't let him eat the candy bar his grandmother just gave him until after dinner. Nicholas waves goodbye to grandma, while stepping on all the cracks in his driveway. This may be an example of _____.

• A) delayed aggression
• B) learned helplessness
• C) passive aggressiveness
• D) an Oedipal response

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Definitions:

Adolescents

Refer to individuals in the developmental stage that transitions from childhood to adulthood, typically occurring between ages 13 and 19.

Myelination

The process of coating the axons of neurons with a fatty layer, myelin, which speeds up the transmission of electrical signals in the nervous system.

Myelin Sheaths

The fatty covering that wraps around the axons of many neurons, which helps increase the speed at which electrical impulses propagate along the nerve cells.

Neuron's Axon

The long, slender projection of a neuron that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body.