If You Failed to Eat for Two Days While Playing

question 50

Multiple Choice

If you failed to eat for two days while playing the latest version of the video game Halo, it might be said that you have experienced

• A) growth motivation.
• B) flow.
• C) an emotional breakdown.
• D) lateralization of emotion.
• E) overjustification.

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Definitions:

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a therapeutic approach and theory of mental illness that attributes thoughts and behaviors to unconscious motives and conflicts.

Transference

In psychoanalysis, the tendency for a patient or client to project positive or negative feelings for important people from the past onto the therapist.

Countertransference

In psychotherapy, it refers to the emotions and projections that the therapist may feel towards the patient.

Free Association

A psychoanalytic process in which patients express their thoughts freely, letting their mind wander without censorship, to uncover unconscious thoughts and feelings.