You are really quite hungry right now, but you don't have a dime to your name. If you were described as "all and only id," what would you do?
a) Distract yourself with images of food.
b) Steal a hot dog from the vendor on the corner.
c) Run all the way home to get something to eat as soon as possible.
d) Use the defense mechanism of denial to thwart the hunger pangs until an appropriate meal can be obtained.
B
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a. single-blind effect. b. double-blind effect. c. observer effect. d. effects of extraneous correlations.
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