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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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