Questionable Business Practices Such as Those Followed by Many Mortgage

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Multiple Choice

Questionable business practices such as those followed by many mortgage lending companies in the past few years:

• A)encouraged investors to increase their stock market holdings.
• B)fundamentally weakened the entire economic environment.
• C)helped retired employees at the expense of current employees.
• D)resulted from too much government regulation.

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Definitions:

Sublimation

A defense mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior.

Displacement

In psychoanalytic theory, a defense mechanism where the mind substitutes either a new aim or a new object for goals felt in their original form to be dangerous or unacceptable.

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies used unconsciously by individuals to protect themselves from anxiety and to cope with reality or maintain self-image.

Projection

A defense mechanism where individuals attribute their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or motives to another person.