Sam has a real clunker of a car that has stalled on him numerous times. He tells his friends that he is getting a brand new car, but then he checks out the prices and realizes that he cannot afford a new car. When his friends ask him when he is getting the new car, he responds that he does not know what he was thinking. He could never give up this car. "It's a classic.". Sam is using the defense
mechanism known as
a. displacement.
b. rationalization.
c. compensation.
d. sublimation.
B
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a. factor analytic technique will be used to group items appropriately. b. test taker is biased when giving responses to test items. c. test item describes a subject's personality and behavior. d. meaning of a test item can only be determined by empirical research.
The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that:
A) one's language determines the pattern of one's thinking and view of the world. B) one's thinking and view of the world determines the structure of one's language. C) we decide which objects belong to a concept according to what is most probable or sensible, given the facts at hand. D) perception of surface structure precedes deep structure in understanding a sentence.
A common technique used in psychoanalysis is "analysis of ________."
A) positive regard B) gestalt C) resistance D) reflection
A neuron is likely to fire ______ when stimulated by a strong signal
a. more intensely b. for a longer period of time c. in a coded sequence d. more often