A five-year-old boy has his first day of kindergarten the next day
The night before his first day, he begins to eat with his hands at the dinner table, cry when his mother won't dress him for bed, suck his thumb, and whine when his mother won't stay with him until he falls asleep. Which of Freud's defense mechanisms best describes this situation? A) Repression
B) Regression
C) Rationalization
D) Remission
E) Regulation
B
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What will be an ideal response?
Which learning theorist is responsible for the discovery of conditioned taste aversions based on his work giving sweetened liquid to rats and then inducing nausea in them?
A) Seligman B) Garcia C) Skinner D) Watson
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a. canalized b. evocative c. passive d. active
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A) high significance group B) high severity group C) low significance group D) low severity group