While inflicting pain, perhaps unintentionally, on an animal or person, a teenager may become sexually aroused and later turn out to be a sadist. The theory that best describes this example of the development of sadism is:
A. behavioral
B. sociocultural
C. biological
D. psychodynamic
Answer: A. behavioral
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A) are preexisting dispositions or causes of behaviour that reliably trigger the behaviour. B) reflect underlying motives. C) are highly unstable across the lifetime. D) indicate what type of childhood the person had.
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