Tyrone has a low self-esteem. When his friends ask him to do something together or go someplace, he responds by saying that they are probably only asking to be polite or because they feel bad for him. These comments make his friends uncomfortable and eventually, they stop making the effort to get together. Tyrone is now sure that he is not a person anyone would want to have as a friend. Which type of transaction does this illustrate?

evocative transaction

Explanation:

Personality traits that affects an individual's personality are both influenced by the genetics as well as environment. This is known as Person-environment transactions. There are mainly four types of Person-environment transactions. They are:

Proactive transaction Reactive transaction Evocative (strong feelings) transaction Manipulative transaction

Evocative transaction are those behaviors which occurs when individuals try to evoke or draw out certain kinds of reactions from their social environments because of their own personality attributes.

In the given context, Tyrone who has a very low self esteem tries to draw out conclusion from his friends who tries to hang around with him that they are being more polite to him because his friends wants to spent time together with each other. Thus Tyrone is illustrating evocative transaction of Person-environment transactions.

Hence the answer is - -

evocative transaction