You are talking with a person who was in one of the Twin Towers just before it collapsed in New York on 9/11. The conversation focuses on the facts and figures about the event, but doesn’t touch on the individual’s emotional experiences. In Freudian terms this person may be using the defense mechanism of _______________ to cope with the event without being overwhelmed by their emotions
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer: intellectualization
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a. has become fixated at the oral stage of development. b. values despair over integrity. c. is suffering from an unresolved Electra complex. d. lacks a superego.
Dr. Ginesberg's lecture on attachment concludes that babies express behavior that makes it more likely they will form attachments to adults because, in the past, infants that expressed these behaviors were the infants who survived. Dr. Ginesberg is presenting a(n) ____ approach to attachment
a. sociocultural b. psychological c. anthropological d. evolutionary
Learners actively "operate on" the environment with the reinforcer occurring after the response during this
a. instrumental learning. b. classical conditioning. c. respondent conditioning. d. reflexive-type learning.
A patient who cannot identify objects is suffering from
a) visual agnosia. b) visual aphasia. c) sensory aphasia. d) sensory agnosia.