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.

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Definitions:

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