After her new baby sister came home form the hospital, her parents discovered Susie had dismembered her favorite doll. This is an example of:
a. denial
b. repression
c. projection
d. reaction formation
e. displacement
f. sublimation
Answer: e. displacement
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A) permissible between individuals who may be close friends (or even not-so-close friends), but are not interested in a long-term committed relationship. B) not permissible under any circumstances, even though many adolescents are sexually active. C) permissible for males but not for females. D) permissible for both men and women if it occurs in the context of a stable, committed, and loving relationship.
Based on children's ratings of who they like or dislike among their peers, researchers have described four categories of social status: ____
a. socially isolated, hostile, preppy, and smart children b. sub-average, average, above average, and three-deviations-from-the-mean children c. popular, rejected, neglected, and controversial children d. social, accepted, rejected, and unpopular