_____ Has Been Found to Be a Powerful Risk Factor

question 28

Multiple Choice

_____ has been found to be a powerful risk factor for the development of cognitive and intellectual decline and for _____ in the elderly. Choices:

• A) Retirement, financial instability
• B) Depression, drug abuse
• C) Alienation, divorce
• D) Social isolation, physical illness

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Definitions:

Projection

A defense mechanism where individuals attribute their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or motives to another person.

Life Instincts

In psychoanalysis, these are the drives or instincts that are directed towards preservation and enhancement of life, including basic needs such as hunger and sex.

Death Instincts

In Freudian psychology, innate drives or impulses leading towards aggression, self-destruction, and death, opposed to life-sustaining instincts.

Human Instincts

Innate, typically fixed patterns of behavior in animals or humans in response to certain stimuli.