{"id":213893,"date":"2025-05-12T19:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=213893"},"modified":"2025-05-12T19:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:47:18","slug":"nicole-wants-a-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/12\/nicole-wants-a-cookie\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole wants a cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nicole wants a cookie. Heather has a cookie. Nicole pushes Heather and takes her cookie. Nicole doesn\u2019t intend to hurt Heather, Nicole just wants the cookie. This is an example of <strong><em>__<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group of answer choices<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fatuous aggression<br>frustration aggression<br>instrumental aggression<br>hostile aggression<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-0-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is: <strong>instrumental aggression<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Aggression is typically categorized into two broad types: <strong>instrumental aggression<\/strong> and <strong>hostile aggression<\/strong>. Understanding the difference between these two is key to identifying the behavior in the scenario described.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instrumental aggression<\/strong> is a type of aggression that is goal-oriented and used as a means to achieve a specific end. The aggressive act is not primarily driven by anger or the intent to cause harm, but rather by the desire to obtain something\u2014such as an object, status, or another reward. In contrast, <strong>hostile aggression<\/strong> is motivated by feelings of anger, with the intent to cause pain or injury to another person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the scenario, Nicole wants a cookie and takes it from Heather by pushing her. Nicole does <strong>not<\/strong> intend to hurt Heather, nor is she angry. Her action is <strong>goal-directed<\/strong>\u2014she wants the cookie, and the act of aggression (pushing) is a tool or <strong>instrument<\/strong> to get it. Therefore, her behavior is best classified as <strong>instrumental aggression<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a common form of aggression seen particularly in young children who may not have developed the social or verbal skills to express their desires appropriately. They may use physical actions to achieve goals without an emotional component of hostility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s also quickly rule out the other options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Hostile aggression<\/strong> would involve hurting Heather out of anger or a desire to inflict pain, which is not the case here.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Frustration aggression<\/strong> occurs when a person becomes aggressive due to being blocked from achieving a goal, typically accompanied by emotional arousal like anger.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fatuous aggression<\/strong> is not a widely recognized psychological term and may be a distractor in the question.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In summary, because Nicole&#8217;s primary motivation was to <strong>obtain the cookie<\/strong>, not to hurt Heather, her behavior is best described as <strong>instrumental aggression<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole wants a cookie. Heather has a cookie. Nicole pushes Heather and takes her cookie. Nicole doesn\u2019t intend to hurt Heather, Nicole just wants the cookie. This is an example of __. Group of answer choices fatuous aggressionfrustration aggressioninstrumental aggressionhostile aggression The Correct Answer and Explanation is: The correct answer is: instrumental aggression Explanation: Aggression [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}