Question

One evening after work, Barbara arrives home in a very bad mood. Noticing this, her husband James asks her why she seems so angry and upset. Barbara hadn't thought about her mood before James mentioned it, and now she thinks hard about what has caused her to be so sullen. She decides that it was because she was hungry and tired, and she tells James so. Barbara is __________ her behavior.

Answer 1

Answer: Constructing a Causal Theory About

Explanation: Causal Theory is a voluntary human behavior that produces change in the outside world. Will is the cause of conduct, and conduct is the cause of result.

The causal theory does not differentiate malicious conduct from guilty conduct, as it does not reveal any question about the agent's psychic relationship to the outcome. Causal theory shifts to the culpability plane.