Chapter 11, Problem 10TY

Summary Introduction

The term “stress” is used to define the emotional, physical, cognitive and behavioral responses originated due to challenging or threatening events. Marriage, car problems and so on are some specific stressors.

Pressure, uncontrollability, frustration, and aggression are some psychological reasons that people find such events stressful. Aggression consists of actions that causes harm and destroy another person due to frustration.

Answer to Problem 10TY

Correct answer:

A person comes home from work angry because of an argument he had with his boss. Subsequently, the person begins yelling at her wife for no apparent reasons. Ultimately, wife of the person finds herself yelling at their youngest child for apparently no good reason other than being frustrated. The wife of that person is displaying displaced aggression. This information is reflected in option “c”. Therefore, option c is correct.

Option c. is given as “displaced aggression”.

Explanation of Solution

Reasons for the correct statement:

Aggression in which one’s frustration is taken out on some less threatening or more available target is termed as displaced aggression. In the given case, wife of the person was frustrated by things that occurred in his office then he yelled at Kina for no reasons. It made wife of the person frustrated and he started to yell at his children. This is due to displaced aggression.

Hence, option c. is correct.

Reasons for the incorrect statements:

Option a. is given as “escape”.

Escape is another reaction of frustration that makes people to leave, drop the school and quit the job or end a relationship. Hence, it is a wrong answer.

Option b. is given as “withdrawal”.

Withdrawal is another reaction of frustration that makes people to leave, drop the school and quit the job or end a relationship, is also known as escape. Hence, it is a wrong answer.

Option d. is given as “projection”.

Projection can be defined as a psychologically mechanism in which, people response or act  in order to handle the difficult emotions or feelings. Hence, it is a wrong answer.

Hence, options a., b., and d. are incorrect.

Conclusion

Displaced aggression occurs when one tries to take out their frustration due to other reasons, on someone who is less threatening or easily available to them.