Sigmund Freud suggested that in therapy a person may
transfer important intense, unrealistic feelings and expectations from their past onto the therapist, so that their relationship mirrors other relationships in the client's life. Another possibility, however, is that stable personality traits in the client may cause him or her to simply react in similar ways to different people. This is an important reminder of the critical thinking concept of
A) ruling out rival hypotheses.
B) replicability.
C) falsifiability.
D) extraordinary claims.
Answer: A
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