Freud regarded _____ as our primary motivation
a. sex
c. fear
b. reliability
d. morality
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Freud regarded sex as our primary motivation. He suggested that people are predominantly pleasure-seeking beings, and much of his personality theory revolves around the necessity of inhibiting or suppressing our sexual longings.
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