When the painter Vincent Van Gogh directed his disturbed energyinto his work, it was an
example of the defense mechanism called
A) reaction formation
B) rationalization
C) sublimation
D) denial
C
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In a research study by Richard Green (1978), he found that children reared by lesbians or transgender individuals tended to be ____ in sexual orientation
a. homosexual b. heterosexual c. bisexual d. transsexual
When a mother praises her child for behaving properly in the grocery store, she is
a. being permissive. b. acting out of fear that her child will become disruptive. c. using response contingent reinforcement. d. classically conditioning the child.
Animals with the first rudimentary brains probably evolved about _________ years ago.
A. 4.5 billion B. 3.5 billion C. 700 million D. 250 million
A form of defensive forgetting is called ______
a. repression c. denial b. projection d. sublimation