Dr. Malloy explains to his patient that a person's threatening thoughts are often repressed so that he or she will be unaware of them. However, these repressed thoughts might "surface" in dreams, expressed emotions, or "slips of the tongue." Dr. Malloy has just explained the ideas of which school of thought in psychology?

a. structuralism
b. psychoanalytic psychology
c. humanistic psychology
d. Gestalt psychology


ANSWER: b

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