Freud believed that all ________ functioned indirectly and unconsciously.

A) psychosexual stages
B) defense mechanisms
C) structures of the personality
D) developmental stages

Defense Mechanisms

Psychological strategies used unconsciously by individuals to protect themselves from anxiety and unacceptable thoughts or feelings.

Psychosexual Stages

A series of developmental stages proposed by Freud, in which the pleasure-seeking energies of the id focus on different erogenous zones.

Personality Structures

The organized pattern of behaviors and attitudes that makes a person distinctive, often described in terms of traits or models such as the Big Five.