A Classmate in Your Psychology Course Is Worried About the Selfish

question 129

Multiple Choice

A classmate in your psychology course is worried about the selfish and sometimes dangerous drives of his id and wonders if it will make him commit crimes. You respond by saying that

• A) each of us also develops an ego to help us behave more realistically.
• B) id fantasies actually reflect the opposite of what you really want and believe.
• C) scientists disproved Freud's theories a long time ago.
• D) since id impulses are usually part of the unconsciousness, they do not manifest in real behaviors.

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Money Supply

The sum of all financial resources in the form of cash and deposits in banks present within an economy at a given moment.

Federal Reserve Board

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The deposit expansion multiplier refers to the ratio of the amount of money banks can create in the form of checkable deposits to the amount of reserves they hold.

Reserve Ratio

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