A very aggressive person may find social acceptance as a professional soldier;
a greedy person may channel this urge into becoming a successful business person, and a person who tends to lie may re-channel this unacceptable impulse into creative writing. All of these are examples of which defense mechanism?
a. sublimation
b. projection
c. reaction formation
d. compensation
ANSWER: a
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Regarding group therapy, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Group therapy allows individuals to act out or directly experience problems. b. Group therapy can produce insights that might not occur from merely talking about an issue. c. Group therapy requires supervision by several therapists at once. d. Psychologists first tried working with groups because there was a shortage of therapists.
You are watching a TV talk show. On the show, you listen to the world's leading researcher on relationships and learn something that might improve your relationships. Your new knowledge was acquired through:
a. authority. b. common sense. c. tenacity. d. reason.
Twenty weeks after conception, the cerebral cortex has around 80 billion neurons. Neurons continue to form at this point,
A) and double by adulthood. B) and quadruple by adulthood. C) and triple by adulthood. D) but then the brain loses about as many as it gets.
A lateralized brain
A) is more common in left-handed than right-handed individuals. B) is more effective at regulating emotion than a nonlateralized brain. C) means that many areas of the cerebral cortex are not yet committed to specific functions. D) may have evolved because it enabled humans to cope more successfully with changing environmental demands.