Emergency room doctors must focus on their procedures rather than be overcome with emotion in viewing their patients in excruciating pain. By separating the emotion from an anxiety-provoking situation so they can save lives, the doctors are using the defense mechanism known as
a. compensation.
b. repression.
c. intellectualization.
d. rationalization.
C
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The term social ______ is used to describe how exposure to suicide or suicidal behavior in one’s family, peer group, or through the media may result in an increase in suicide attempts.
A. contagion B. reactivity C. facilitation D. modeling
Lisa is a single parent of three children. Every day, she cooks, prepares her children for school, and takes care of the household. She also has a demanding job that she does not like, but cannot quit as she is concerned about meeting the household expenses. Lisa's condition best exemplifies _____
A) psychological hardiness B) self-efficacy expectations C) coronary-prone behavior patterns D) daily hassles
A psychologist studying consciousness is analogous to a(n):
A) botanist pondering what it is like to be a daffodil. B) theoretical physicist attempting to determine what happens to objects that enter a black hole. C) meteorologist trying to predict the weather. D) alchemist trying to turn lead into gold.
Konrad Lorenz is best known for his work on
A) classical conditioning. B) PET scans. C) imprinting. D) the information-processing approach.