Imagine you have a friend, Bill, with unconscious homosexual impulses. Many people assume Bill is gay, but he is openly homophobic
During college basketball games, he stands in a corner with a bullhorn, denouncing homosexuality. A few years later, Bill surprises everyone by coming out of the closet. He came to terms with his homosexual drives and now publicly admits being gay. Freud might say that Bill was using the defense mechanism of __________.
a. projection
b. denial
c. reaction formation
d. repression
Answer: C: reaction formation
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Recent research indicates that the Big Five traits are evident in people in ________
a. the United States and in other cultures b. neither the United States nor in other cultures c. other cultures but not in the United States d. the United States but not in other cultures
Measuring everyone against the norms and customs of one's own ethnic group is termed
A) ethnography. B) transethnicity. C) ethnocentrism. D) ethological. E) prejudice.