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Seena is extremely nervous about an exam that she is taking tomorrow.To relieve the stress,she decides to stop thinking about the exam,and she spends her evening watching television and thinking happy thoughts.Seena is using a(n) ____ coping method.


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Latency

In psychoanalytic theory, a period of childhood development characterized by the sublimation of instinctual drives; it is considered a phase of relative psychological calm.

Oral Stage

The first phase in Freud's psychosexual development theory, where an infant's pleasure centers are in the mouth, leading to behaviors like sucking and biting.

Fixated

The psychological state or condition of being obsessively focused or attached to a person, thing, or idea.

Latency

The period of delay or the time between the initiation of an action or process and its effect or outcome.

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