A husband is plagued by feelings of incompetence. When he comes home, he scans the house for any sign that it is his wife and not himself who is incompetent. He attacks her on flimsy pretexts, assuming the role of self-righteously competent spouse saddled with an incompetent wife. Not only does the wife feel attacked and upset, she also believes that she is incompetent, even though others disagree with her self-assessment. The psychological defense or process illustrated in this example is
A. Denial.
B. Projection.
C. Projective identification
D. Reversal.
E. Undoing.
Answer: C. Projective identification
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The conditioned stimulus is defined as:
A) the stimulus that automatically produces the unconditioned response. B) the previously neutral stimulus that automatically produces the unconditioned response. C) the previously neutral stimulus that has acquired the capacity to produce the conditioned response. D) the stimulus that remains neutral throughout classical conditioning.
Reinforcement is the means by which experience alters the environmental guidance of
behavior, whereas sensitivity to reinforcement is a product of a. shaping. b. classical conditioning. c. operant conditioning. d. natural selection. e. temporal contiguity.
Freud argued that the primary job of the ego, which operates on what he called reality principle, is to
A. prevent anxiety or guilt that comes from id impulses that violate superego restrictions. B. quiet the pleasure demands of the id so that we become responsible rather than self-indulgent. C. quiet the moral demands of the superego so that we have fun in life rather than being too serious and "up tight." D. push us toward resolution of the five psychosexual stages of development as quickly as possible.
Marietta works as a cook. She is likely to have a amount of stress, since her job is low in decision control and high in psychological demand
A) ?high B) ?low C) ?impossible to tell D) ?moderate