According to Freud, during the phallic stage of psychosexual development, little boys have conflicting feelings of love and hate towards their mothers that cause them to identify with their fathers. This phenomenon is called:

A) regression.
B) the Oedipus conflict.
C) the Electra complex.
D) projection.


B) the Oedipus conflict.

Psychology

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a. Imaginal desensitization b. Emotive imagery c. Meditation d. In vivo exposure

Psychology

Mental retardation caused by a fragile-X chromosome appears:

in males only. in females only. in both sexes equally. more frequently in males than in females.

Psychology

The concept that personality emerges from conflicts that children experience when what they want to do differs from what society wants them to do is the basis of ____'s psychodynamic theory

a. Albert Bandura b. Jean Piaget c. Sigmund Freud d. Lev Vygotsky

Psychology

. Spontaneous recovery

a. occurs before the pairing of the CS and US. b. occurs after a fixed interval schedule of reinforcement. c. is an unlearned response. d. can occur once a response has been extinguished

Psychology