When Pablo's father died after a long illness, Pablo shielded himself from this emotional pain by thinking about how his father was now out of the pain that he had been in for over two years and how his father had lived such a long and meaningful life. Pablo is using the defense mechanism known as
a. compensation.
b. rationalization.
c. fantasy.
d. intellectualization.
D
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a. Alfred Adler b. Carl Rogers c. Sigmund Freud d. B.F. Skinner
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A. better grades in school B. 50% higher earnings later in adulthood C. higher IQs D. fewer fights
A good discussion section should begin with ______.
a. a restatement of the hypotheses b. a review of past results c. the results of the statistical tests (e.g., t, F, and p values) d. the title of the paper