In Freud's usage, a "defense mechanism" has the effect of
A) protecting the person's consciousness from threatening material.
B) helping an individual improve his or her self-awareness.
C) improving people's ability to remember traumatic events in their lives.
D) re-creating the infantile state of simple needs.
E) motivating a person to take a strong stance in support of his or her beliefs.
A
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Which principle is an ingredient of critical thinking?
A. determining factual accuracy B. having an accepting disposition C. seeking confirmatory examples of a claim D. acknowledging the prestige of an authority
Parents often provide children with direct feedback about behavior. When parents respond to a behavior in a way that increases the likelihood of it being repeated (e.g., rewarding hard work on school project), they have used __________________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
From a neurological perspective, the main reason that adolescents engage in potentially harmful behavior is ________.
A. lack of lateralization B. heightened emotional states C. exposure to teratogens D. delayed decision capacity
Which of the following has key concepts that can be most easily defined and scientifically studied?
A. humanistic theory B. psychodynamic, humanistic, and cognitive-social theory C. cognitive-social theory D. psychodynamic theory