When Your Ego Redirects the Id Impulse Toward a Safer

question 33

Multiple Choice

When your ego redirects the id impulse toward a safer outlet in order to minimize the consequences to you, this is MOST likely the defense mechanism of:

• A) sublimation.
• B) displacement.
• C) denial.
• D) projection.

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Definitions:

Dendrites

Branch-like extensions of neurons that receive signals from other neurons and conduct them toward the cell body.

Axons

Long, slender projections of nerve cells (neurons) that conduct electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body.

Synaptic Cleft

The small gap at the junction between neurons, through which neurotransmitters are released to transmit signals from one neuron to another.

Neuron

A specialized cell transmitting nerve impulses; a nerve cell.