The primary goal of a defense mechanism is to:

In 2001, an unknown person sent anthrax through the United States Postal Service, causing the deaths of five people. Many people became afraid to open their mail, although the risk for any given individual was extremely small

What heuristics help to explain this reaction? What will be an ideal response?

Research on animistic thinking shows that

a. young children attribute animism to nearly every object they find. b. Piaget was right, that animism pervades the thinking of preschoolers. c. animism is less common in preschoolers' minds than Piaget claimed. d. preschoolers often perceive animism in stationary objects.