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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by instrumental

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aggression, it's what all pianist suffer from when trying to play the minute [Girl playing the piano]

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waltz so close, yet so far. Here's your question Charlie is angry because the

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network canceled his television show he threw a chair against the window and

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broke it this is a display of what and hear your potential answers.... Well poor

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Charlie was paid millions of dollars a year to recite lines he didn't write for [Charlie reciting lines in a studio]

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a few hours a week he'd probably be angry too if he lost that cash cow but

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throwing a chair in a fit of rage isn't exactly a normal reaction so what is it [Charlie throws a chair at a window and a dog makes sad noise]

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a display of.. well it might sound a bit quote crazy unquote it's definitely not

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sociopathic that would describe an act that displays a distinct lack of empathy [Charlie in a stray jacket behind bars]

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toward others and seeing as a folding metal chair doesn't have feelings well

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this doesn't fit instrumental aggression isn't when you chuck your clarinet [man throwing a clarinet across a room]

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across the room it actually describes a form of aggression that is premeditated

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and performed with a specific goal in mind but unless the whole TV show

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related outburst was simply an excuse to carry out Charlie's much more nefarious [Charlie throws a chair and then sniggers]

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plot against windows across America well this wouldn't really make sense either

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in the context of psychology extinction describes the disappearance of a [an angry face above a picture of a brain]

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previously learned behavior when that behavior is no longer reinforced. So for

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instance maybe Charlie used to we don't know, not destroy everything around him [Charlie laid in a pile of leaves with a deer and rabbit closeby]

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because the whole having a job he didn't want to lose thing reinforced such a

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behavior so once that job went extinct so too would his not destroying [Charlie getting angry]

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everything around him behavior what a guy but not our answer and seeing as

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anger management is something that Charlie should probably attend [People in a circle on the ground discussing anger management]

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missed a class on it and not a description of his window destroying tendencies we're going [hammer smashes through a window]

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to rule that one out too so cross out D. While hostile aggression fits and is

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our winner as it's a term that describes reactive aggression yeah it's the sort [man carrying a gatling gun]

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of thing that happens in reaction to something unfavorable with a simple

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purpose of harming or damaging someone or some thing in the question Charlie's

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reacting to the show's cancellation by damaging the

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window in a fit of rage but while some more eloquent and academic types refer [professor teaching a class]

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to it as hostile aggression, we tend to lean towards a more straightforward term

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like er, yeah temper tantrum [Charlie as a baby having a tantrum]

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