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You Get Especially Angry When Your Boss Yells at You

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You get especially angry when your boss yells at you, but you never talk back to him. According to psychodynamic theory, you do not talk back because you have _____________ your aggressive drives into your unconscious.


Definitions:

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Functional Fixedness

A cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used.

Problem-Solving Barrier

Refers to any obstacle, either internal or external, that impedes the process of finding solutions to a problem, including cognitive biases, lack of resources, or inadequate information.

Evolutionary Theorists

Scholars and scientists who study how evolutionary theory, which posits that species change over time due to natural selection and genetic variation, applies to various phenomena.

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