Hal is strongly attracted to one of the women that he works with. However, his coworker is married. To deal with the anxiety that his feelings have generated, he has unconsciously convinced himself that his coworker is attracted to him. According to Freud, Hal may be unconsciously dealing with the anxiety caused by his feelings toward his coworker by using the ego-defense mechanism of:
a. repression
b. projection
c. reaction formation
d. sublimation
B
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a. the association between two variables. b. the direction of the relationship between two variables. c. the effect of one variable on another. d. how one factor varies with another.
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a. deindividuation c. prejudice b. altruism d. social facilitation
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a. Attacks on children and teachers b. Physical and psychological damage c. Death d. All of these are violent behaviors that occur in schools.
In recent decades in Western countries, there has been little change in average height, indicating that the populations of these countries have reached the upper boundary of ______________ for height
a. their concordance rate b. their heritability c. their reaction range d. their polygenic inheritance