Parties in Conflict Sometimes Continue to Fight Because Being Against

question 6

Multiple Choice

Parties in conflict sometimes continue to fight because being against someone else in a conflict supports the definition of their identity. They often do this even though they don't acknowledge or recognize that this is the reason for the conflict escalation. From a psychodynamic perspective, this type of conflict behavior is characterized as:

• A) suppression
• B) conscious reactivity
• C) displacement
• D) compulsiveness
• E) collusion

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Definitions:

Mean

The mean of a collection of numbers, found by dividing their total sum by the quantity of numbers in the set.

μ

The symbol commonly used to represent the mean or average of a population in statistics.

σ

Represents the standard deviation of a population in statistics, measuring the dispersion of dataset values from the mean.

Normally Distributed

Refers to a probability distribution that is even on both sides of its mean, indicating that values close to the mean happen more often than values far from the mean.