The Comfortable Patterns of Thinking We Acquire in a Lifetime

question 36

Multiple Choice

The comfortable patterns of thinking we acquire in a lifetime are called

• A)critical thinking.
• B)reasoning.
• C)deductive arguments.
• D)mind-sets.

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Definitions:

Anxiety-Producing Situations

Circumstances or events that trigger significant apprehension, fear, or worry.

Defensive Neurosis

A psychological condition in which a person uses defense mechanisms in an excessive and rigid manner to cope with stress or anxiety, potentially leading to dysfunctional behavior or relationships.

Resistance

The refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument, or in psychology, the opposition to the flow of electric current or another meaning involves unconscious defense mechanisms against awareness of harmful impulses.

Freud

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.