A college student takes a lot of psychology courses so that he will be able to talk about his personal psychological problems in a calm, detached, clinical fashion. He is using the defense mechanism of _______

a. displacement
b. intellectualization
c. projection
d. reaction formation

b

Psychology

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When your little sister, who is a freshman in college, comes home to visit, she sleeps all weekend. Why? She has accumulated ____

a. a sleep debt b. a sleeping disorder c. an exhaustive sleep disorder d. a very bad sleeping habit

Psychology

According to Piaget, abstract thinking and logic are the hallmarks of the most advanced stage of cognitive development: formal operational thinking. What is postformal thinking and why is it considered more advanced than formal operational thinking?

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology