Bill, a 7 year-old boy, wears a football jacket with the logo of his favorite football team to school every day, and feels bigger and stronger because of this. Bill is illustrating the defense mechanism of
a. identification.
b. intellectualization.
c. regression.
d. repression.
Q. 2Picked on constantly at school, Bruce would come home and throw his cat against the wall, thus ____________ his anger. Pick the appropriate psychoanalytic term.
a. tantruming
b. displacing
c. intellectualizing
d. repressing
Q. 3If Bernice can't remember being sexually abused as a child, she may be using the defense mechanism called
a. projection.
b. reaction formation.
c. rationalization
d. repression.
Q. 4According to Freud, Ben, who is angry at his brother and is afraid that he might push him into a busy highway, is demonstrating
a. generalized anxiety.
b. moral anxiety.
c. neurotic anxiety.
d. reality anxiety.
Q. 5When Barbara follows her parents' example in being kind to her baby sister, the following is being formed:
a. ego.
b. ego ideal .
c. id.
d. superego.
Q. 6Anticathexis refers to the
a. ego's control over the id.
b. ego's control over the superego.
c. superego's control over the ego.
d. superego's control over the false self.
Q. 7Which of the following is identified with the id?
a. identity
b. conscious
c. preconscious
d. unconscious
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