For specific phobias, what are some psychodynamic causal factors?

What will be an ideal response?


The psychoanalytic theory of phobia formation emphasizes some initial repression of an anxiety-arousing conflict, the projection of the conflict onto the external world, and then displacement of the anxiety onto some other target.

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The concept of behavior in the definition of psychology incorporates ALL but which of the following?

a. thinking. b. dreaming. c. quiet reading. d. making yourself a sandwich. e. secretion of insulin by the pancreas.

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Which memories are easiest to demonstrate?

a. sensory b. procedural c. semantic and episodic d. explicit

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Psychoanalysis was a therapy technique designed by ______

a) Alfred Adler b) Carl Rogers c) Fritz Perls d) Sigmund Freud

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Philia refers to

A) ?a passionate sexual relationship. B) ?a concern for the other's well-being. C) ?unrequited love. D) ?the love between parent and child.

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