A very aggressive person may find social acceptance as a professional soldier, a greedy person may channel this urge into becoming a successful business person, and a person that tends to lie may rechannel this unacceptable impulse into creative writing. All of these are examples of which defense mechanism?
a. sublimation
b. projection
c. reaction formation
d. compensation
A
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b. He would begin to reconsider his anti-Asian stance. c. He would now view Asians as more intelligent. d. He would now views Asians as even less intelligent.
One of the founders of functionalism was
a. Sigmund Freud. b. William James. c. Wilhelm Wundt. d. E. B. Titchener.
______ generally see retirement as a time to slow down and do less, whereas ______ view it as a time to learn new things and explore new possibilities
a. Neither men nor women; both men and women b. Men; women c. Women; men d. Both men and women; neither men nor women
Sigmund Freud is responsible for revolutionary ideas and the __________ theory
a) behavioral b) psychoanalytic c) phallic d) reality