What two characteristics do all defense mechanisms share?

What will be an ideal response?


All defense mechanisms (1) can operate unconsciously and (2) distort, transform or falsify reality in one way or another.

Psychology

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A. 10.7 million B. 25.4 million C. 36.9 million D. 42.1 million

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Many people believe that there are more deaths in the United States each year due to tornadoes than deaths due to asthma, even though asthma kills more people. This mistaken belief is due in part to the reports of tornadoes being more vivid. This is an example of how our judgments are affected by ____.?

a. ?the availability heuristic b. ?the representativeness heuristic c. ?the confirmation bias d. ?loss aversion

Psychology

According to Ellis, the result of a situation that causes stress is called a(n)

a. outcome. c. consequence. b. result. d. stimulus.

Psychology

Adoption studies based on the assumption that if an attribute is influenced primarily by environmental factors, then adopted children should

a. be just as likely to resemble their biological parents as their adoptive parents. b. resemble their biological and adoptive parents to some degree. c. resemble their biological parents more than their adoptive parents. d. resemble their adoptive parents more than their biological parents.

Psychology