Defense Mechanisms ________

question 5

Multiple Choice

Defense mechanisms ________

• A) make a person feel more anxious and have more problems, because they begin to act defensively.
• B) are strategies the id uses to try to achieve what it desires.
• C) are conscious, intentional attempts to cope in an effective way with an anxiety producing event.
• D) help a person feel less anxious, but because they usually work by distorting reality, they are not always adaptive.