A first-grade teacher teaches a child how to "use words"when angry. The child seems to understand and uses words when angry for several weeks. One day the child gets angry, "loses it,"and slams her fist into another child's back. Please explain why the child did not use words this time.
A) She was just "faking it" when she previously used words.
B) She was so agitated that she could not remember the teacher's lesson on using words.
C) She fell back on an old way of doing things when angry.
D) both B and C
E) both A and C

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When individuals, especially children, are highly agitated, they might not remember to use newly learned coping mechanisms like using words to express anger. Instead, they might revert to more instinctual or previously learned behaviors, such as physical expressions of anger.

A First-Grade Teacher Teaches a Child How to "Use Words"when