Paige is a young woman who wants her parents to treat her like an adult. But as soon as a problem arises in Paige’s life, she runs home and asks her parents to solve her problems. Paige is engaging in which defense mechanism?
a. ?sublimation
b. ?rationalization
c. ?regression
d. ?projection
ANSWER: c. ?regression
Psychology
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a. it measures what it is designed to measure. b. its results are comparable to established standards of performance. c. it produces the same results from one time to the next. d. it predicts other criteria of the personality trait in question.
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