Esme hates her biology class and instead of studying, she goes out partying the night before her final, telling herself, "I've done all I can. The party will calm me down and help me get a good night's sleep." This example best illustrates the defense mechanism known as:
A. sublimation.
B. rationalization.
C. repression.
D. projection.
Answer: B
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A. ventral stream B. dorsal stream C. lateral stream D. magnoparvocellular pathway
Researchers use the term desirable difficulty to refer to:
A) situations that make acquiring new knowledge more challenging, but help long-term learning. B) events that allow students to "blow off steam" and improve short-term performance. C) obstacles that distract from studying and decrease long-term learning. D) situations that students say improve the effectiveness of their studying, but which really impairs it.
Patients with damage to subcortical motor areas lose
A. voluntary control of facial muscles but retain spontaneous expression. B. spontaneous expression but retain voluntary control of facial muscles. C. both voluntary control of facial muscles and spontaneous expression. D. neither voluntary control of facial muscles nor spontaneous expression.
Who is likely to live the longest?
a) Fred, who sleeps 4 hours per night b) Lyle, who sleeps 10 hours per night c) Simon, who sleeps 7 hours per night d) Bernard, who sleeps 9 hours per night