According to the Text, Which of the Following Is True

question 46

Multiple Choice

According to the text, which of the following is true?

• A) The more similar a couple is in terms of race and class, the more likely they are to break up.
• B) The more similar a couple is in terms of race and class, the less likely they are to break up.
• C) The more similar a couple is in terms of parental relationships, the more likely they are to break up.
• D) The more similar a couple is in terms of parental relationships, the less likely they are to break up.

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Definitions:

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies unconsciously used to protect a person from anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings.

Repression

A defense mechanism where unpleasant thoughts, memories, or desires are kept out of conscious awareness.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory introduced by Sigmund Freud, which suggests that a child has unconscious sexual desires for their opposite-sex parent and hostility toward the same-sex parent.

Conscience

An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.