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Practice Reading: Multiple Choice, Single Answer ID: #46937 Theorists
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Theorists adopting the psychodynamic approach hold that inner conflicts are crucial for understanding human behavior, including aggression. Sigmund Freud, for example, believed that aggressive impulses are inevitable reactions to the frustrations of daily life. Children normally desire to vent aggressive impulses on other people, including their parents, because even the most attentive parents cannot gratify all of their demands immediately. Yet children, also fearing their parents’ punishment and the loss of parental love, come to repress most aggressive impulses.

Freud believed that children experience conflict between a desire to vent aggression on their parents and

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Option 2: "a fear that their parents will punish them and stop loving them"

Explanation: This option accurately reflects the text's assertion that children repress aggressive impulses due to their fear of punishment and the potential loss of parental love. This fear is a key element of the inner conflict described by Freud.

Option 1: "a frustration that their parents do not give them everything they want"

Explanation: While the text mentions that children experience frustration due to unmet demands, it does not state that this frustration is the primary conflict they face. The focus is on the fear of punishment and loss of love, which is more central to Freud's theory.

Option 3: "a desire to take care of their parents"

Explanation: The text does not mention any desire to take care of parents as part of the conflict. Instead, it emphasizes aggressive impulses and the fear of punishment, making this option irrelevant to Freud's theory.

Option 4: "a desire to vent aggression on other family members"

Explanation: The text specifically discusses children's aggressive impulses directed towards their parents, not other family members. This option misrepresents the focus of Freud's argument regarding the conflict children face.

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