When a Psychoanalyst Asks Someone to Free Associate, What Should

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Multiple Choice

When a psychoanalyst asks someone to free associate, what should the person do?

• A) Talk freely to a group of strangers.
• B) Sit quietly and let the mind go blank.
• C) Try to remember everything that has happened that day.
• D) Say everything that comes to mind.

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Definitions:

Balanced Polymorphism

A situation in which two or more alleles of a gene persist in a population because the survival advantage or disadvantage of each balances out.

Heterozygote Advantage

The phenomenon where individuals with two different alleles for a particular trait have a greater fitness than those with two identical alleles.

Frequency-Dependent Selection

A process of evolution whereby the success and reproductive viability of a genotype or phenotype is influenced by its commonness or rarity in comparison to other genotypes or phenotypes within the same population.

Genetic Drift

A mechanism of evolution that results in random changes in the allele frequencies of a population, often having a larger effect in small populations.