From the Psychoanalytic Perspective, It Is Possible for a Person

question 68

Multiple Choice

From the psychoanalytic perspective, it is possible for a person to unconsciously banish unacceptable wishes, urges, and impulses. This type of motivated forgetting, thought by Freud to be a primary defense mechanism, is called

• A)sublimation.
• B)repression.
• C)regression.
• D)reaction formation.
• E)projection.

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Definitions:

Explicit Attitudes

Attitudes that are consciously recognized and expressed by individuals, reflecting their beliefs or feelings towards an object or subject.

Unconscious Level

A part of the mind that is inaccessible to the conscious mind but that affects behavior and emotions.

Ingroup

A social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member, often contrasting with an "outgroup" which the person does not identify with.

Outgroup

An outgroup is a social group to which an individual does not identify, often viewed with less favor than the in-group or the group to which the individual belongs.