The Defence Mechanism That Involves Forgetting Threatening or Conflicting Events

question 45

Multiple Choice

The defence mechanism that involves forgetting threatening or conflicting events or situations,resulting in complete absence of those events or situations from conscious memory,is called:

• A)repression.
• B)denial.
• C)projection.
• D)displacement.

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Definitions:

Normally Distributed

A statistical distribution where data points are symmetrically distributed around the mean, forming a bell-shaped curve.

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the degree to which a dataset's values vary or are spread, showing the distance of the values from the average.

Probability

The measure or quantification of how likely an event is to occur, expressed as a number between 0 (impossible) and 1 (certain).

NORM.DIST

A function in statistics that returns the normal distribution for a specified mean and standard deviation.