Asked by Breanna Sauceda on May 10, 2024
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While Professor Gomez was going through a painful divorce,he tended to create unnecessarily difficult tests and gave his students unusually low grades.A psychoanalyst would be most likely to view the professor's treatment of students as an example of
A) reaction formation.
B) displacement.
C) projection.
D) regression.
Displacement
A defense mechanism where an individual shifts emotional impulses from an undesirable object or person to a more acceptable one.
Regression
A statistical method used to model the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables.
Reaction Formation
A defense mechanism in which an individual unconsciously replaces threatening inner wishes and fantasies with an exaggerated version of the opposite.
- Investigate the psychological justifications for transferring emotions and behaviors.
Verified Answer
May 16, 2024
Learning Objectives
- Investigate the psychological justifications for transferring emotions and behaviors.
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