Repression is an __________ effort by the ego to push out threatening material from awareness

Emme selectively attends to and better recalls emotionally positive over negative information. Emme has the ability to maximize positive emotion and dampen negative emotion. This ability is known as

A) gerotranscendence. B) ego differentiation. C) ego transcendence. D) affect optimization.

One aspect of the complexity of adolescents' self-conceptions is that they can distinguish between an actual self and ____

a. potentiated selves b. possible selves c. imagined selves d. fictional selves