What theory suggests that if a person is impeded in reaching a goal he or she is seeking, then this impediment will lead to a stimulation of a drive whose main goal is to harm some person or object?

a) The general aggression model
b) The frustration-aggression hypothesis
c) The evolutionary hypothesis
d) The death wish theory


b

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