Describe a healthy use of defense mechanisms, distinguishing it from an unhealthy use of defense mechanisms.

What will be an ideal response?


healthy use of defense mechanisms: when feeling stressed, direct thoughts towards something you enjoy rather than letting the stress overwhelm you. unhealthy use of defense mechanisms: projecting or displacing your anger onto an innocent person.

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The famous case study by Thigpen and Cleckley (1957) that started the public's fascination with the idea of multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder, became a book and movie called

a. Michelle Remembers. b. Eve Black and Eve White. c. The Three Faces of Eve. d. The Shining.

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Although investigators may disagree about the exact percentages, all agree that . . .

a. Some aspects of our personalities are inherited b. Some aspects of our behavior are inherited c. Personality and behavior refer to pretty much the same thing d. None of the above

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The premise that young people's personalities mature as they invest in their lives and the greater society through stable relationships and steady work is from __________

a. the social investment theory b. rank order consistency c. the maturation of personality d. behaviorism

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Imagine that a researcher collects 100 samples of 50 people’s reaction time data for an attention task. What is the best way to represent the data that he collects?

a. With a probability distribution b. With an inferential-statistics output c. With a graph of simple frequency d. With a sampling error plot

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