If You Cannot Decide Whether to Order the Steak or the Creole

question 173

Multiple Choice

If you cannot decide whether to order the steak or the Creole shrimp dish because they both are so delicious, you are experiencing a(n) __________ conflict.

• A)approach-approach
• B)avoidance-avoidance
• C)approach-avoidance
• D)double appraisal

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Definitions:

Pleasure Principle

A psychoanalytic concept that describes the instinctual seeking of pleasure and avoidance of pain in order to satisfy biological and psychological needs.

Personality

A combination of features that delineates an individual's unique character.

Psychoanalytic Theory

A body of theories developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes the role of unconscious processes and experiences in early childhood on later personality and behavior.

After-The-Fact Explanations

Reasonings or interpretations provided retrospectively to justify or make sense of events that have already occurred.