Which Statement Is True

question 54

Multiple Choice

Which statement is true?

• A)Defense spending as a percent of the federal budget has steadily fallen since 1990.
• B)Today we spend as more on defense than the rest of the world combined.
• C)The largest federal government purchase is education.
• D)State and local government spending has been declining since the mid-1980s.

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Definitions:

Conscious Forms

Refers to the aspects or configurations of conscious experience that are known and understood by an individual.

Oral-Retentive

Characterized by behaviors thought to be the result of a fixation in the oral stage of psychosexual development, often manifesting as meticulousness or stinginess.

Projection

A defense mechanism where individuals attribute their own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to others.

Free Association

A psychoanalytic technique in which a patient says whatever comes to mind without censorship as a way to uncover the unconscious.