Briana just gave birth to her sixth daughter. She unconsciously resents the baby's birth and wishes the infant had died at birth. However, when she cares for her daughter, she smothers her with exaggerated care and affection. According to Freud, Briana may be unconsciously dealing with her feelings by using the ego-defense mechanism of:
a. repression
b. rationalization
c. sublimation
d. reaction formation
D
Psychology
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According to Julian Rotter, Paris has a(n) __________ locus of control. a. deficient b. unstable c. internal d. external
Psychology
A form of learning in which a person learns by observing the behavior of another person is
A) operant conditioning. B) classical conditioning. C) modeling. D) reinforcements.
Psychology