Sam Has a Real Clunker of a Car That Has

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Multiple Choice

Sam has a real clunker of a car that has stalled on him numerous times.He tells his friends that he is getting a brand new car, but then he checks out the prices and realizes that he cannot afford a new car.When his friends ask him when he is getting the new car, he responds that he does not know what he was thinking.He could never give up this car."It's a classic." Sam is using the defense mechanism known as

• A) displacement.
• B) rationalization.
• C) compensation.
• D) sublimation.

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Definitions:

Levels of Awareness

The different stages or degrees of consciousness in which an individual has varying accessibility to thoughts, feelings, and perceptions.

Collective Unconscious

A concept in psychology proposed by Carl Jung, referring to the part of the unconscious mind that is derived from ancestral memory and experience, shared among beings of the same species.

Latent Memory Traces

Nonconscious memories that, while not presently accessible, can influence behavior and thought processes.

Ancestral Past

The history and lineage of one's predecessors or the evolutionary history of a species.