The Unconscious Is Best Defined as Ideas, Thoughts, and Feelings

question 9

Multiple Choice

The unconscious is best defined as ideas, thoughts, and feelings ________.

• A) of which we are not and cannot normally become aware
• B) we can recall from memory
• C) of which we are fully aware
• D) of which we are not, and can never become aware

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Definitions:

Preformationism

The belief that adultlike capacities, desires, interests, and emotions are present in early childhood.

Ethnography

The study of the cultural organization of behavior.

Plasticity

The brain's ability to change and adapt as a result of experience, often highlighted in discussions of learning and recovery after injury.

Developmental Science

An interdisciplinary field that studies how people grow, change, and stay the same over the course of their lives, from conception to death.