When People Have Enjoyed Relatively Good Circumstances in Life, and Find

question 25

Multiple Choice

When people have enjoyed relatively good circumstances in life, and find their status and power declining, they join a social movement to protect their position, according to

• A) relative deprivation theory.
• B) ideological commitment theory.
• C) declining privilege theory.
• D) the Tea Party.

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Definitions:

Regression

A statistical method for predicting the value of a dependent variable based on the value(s) of one or more independent variables, or a defense mechanism leading to reversion to an earlier stage of development.

Psychosexual Stage

A concept in Freudian psychology that describes phases during childhood where the libido is focused on different body parts.

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies developed by the unconscious mind to protect an individual from anxiety or unacceptable thoughts and feelings.

Fixation

In psychoanalytic theory, an obsessive interest or attachment to a developmental phase or aspect of personal interaction.