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Name: _ ID: A<br />

33. According to Freud, conflicts centering on which of the following impulses are especially likely to have<br />

far-reaching consequences?<br />

a. greed<br />

b. aggression<br />

c. affiliation<br />

d. achievement<br />

34. The impending possibility of a forbidden impulse getting out of control and being expressed in behavior<br />

would be most apt to produce in the person.<br />

a. anxiety<br />

b. impulse gratification<br />

c. secondary gain<br />

d. depression<br />

35. Defense mechanisms combat feelings of anxiety and guilt<br />

a. through self-deception<br />

b. through rational problem solving<br />

c. by enhancing self-insight<br />

d. by making unconscious urges conscious<br />

36. Giving self-justifying plausible excuses that hide the real reasons for our behavior defines the defense<br />

mechanism known as<br />

a. regression<br />

b. reaction formation<br />

c. projection<br />

i ~ d. rationalization<br />

37. The process of pushing distressing thoughts into the unconscious and keeping them there is known as<br />

a. neurogenic amnesia<br />

b. suppression<br />

c. avoidance<br />

d. repression<br />

38. Attributing one's own thoughts or motives to others defines<br />

a. reaction formation<br />

b. rationalization<br />

c. projection<br />

d. regression<br />

39. Hal is fearful of men who are friendly toward him, convinced that they are all homosexuals attempting to<br />

seduce him. Should it be the case that Hal is himself a latent homosexual fearful of admitting this even to<br />

himself, we might conclude that he is using the defense mechanisms of repression and<br />

a. reaction formation<br />

b. projection<br />

c. displacement<br />

d. regression<br />

40. A man who has numerous reasons to hate his mother instead lavishes her with unrealistic amounts of<br />

attention and love. He is probably exhibiting the defense mechanism of<br />

a. regression<br />

b. identification<br />

c. reaction formation<br />

d. displacement<br />

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