Question

John has a problem controlling his temper, especially when driving. John finds himself getting very angry and agitated whenever he's in rush hour traffic or when the other drivers around him drive slower than he wants to drive.
Choose the theory that matches each explanation for John's behavior.

Question 1 options:

Socio-cultural

Behavioral

Cognitive

Neurobiological

Humanistic

Psychoanalytic

Evolutionary

1.

John has a chemical imbalance in the brain that makes it hard for John to control his anger.
2.

John has a lot of pent up hostility and anger buried in his unconscious that comes to the surface when he is faced with stressful situations, especially when driving.
3.

John becomes angry when he is driving due to his interpretation of the situation. John always thinks traffic will be bad so he is always expecting the worst when driving.
4.

John becomes angry because he has learned getting angry often gets him what he wants so now he automatically gets angry when the environment around him is not to his liking.
5.

Getting caught in traffic may make John late for work or other places he is going. His ideal self wants to be on time always. So being late will create distance between his ideal self and real self. This creates frustration and out of that frustration comes anger.
6.

Expressions of anger are a part of the the culture he grew up in so when faced with frustrating situations he automatically becomes angry

7.

Anger and aggressive behavior helped the human race to adapt and survive so that trait has become a part of human feelings and behavior.

Answer 1

7/evolutionary 1/neurobiological 6/socio-cultural 5/humanistic 4/behavioural 3/cognitive 2/psychoanalytic