Which should the nurse recognize as an example of the defense mechanism of repression?
A. A student aware of the need to study for tomorrow's test goes to a movie instead.
B. A woman whose son was killed in Iraq does not believe the military report.
C. A man who is unhappily married goes to school to become a marriage counselor.
D. A woman was raped when she was 12 and no longer remembers the incident.
ANS: D
Repression is the involuntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness.
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