Max: You Should Have Been There

question 2

Multiple Choice

Max: You should have been there. Lyra agreed to go to the formal with me. Jamie: I heard. I also heard she only agreed to make the guy she actually likes jealous. Jamie's comment is an example of _____.

• A) confirming language/communication.
• B) disconfirming language/communication.
• C) an "I" statement.
• D) a "You" statement.

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Definitions:

Ego Ideal

An essential component of the personality in Freudian psychoanalysis, representing an individual's ideal self and the standards by which they judge their own actions.

Psychodynamic Theorist

A specialist in a psychological approach that emphasizes the systematic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience.

Maslow

Refers to a hierarchy of needs theory proposed by Abraham Maslow, which suggests that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other, more advanced needs.

Skinner

B.F. Skinner was a prominent psychologist known for his work in behaviorism and for developing the theory of operant conditioning.