Communication Skills Are a Type of _____ Skill

question 50

Short Answer

Communication skills are a type of _____ skill.

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Definitions:

Defense Mechanisms

Psychological strategies unconsciously used by individuals to protect themselves from anxiety and to manage emotional conflict and internal or external stressors.

Psychosexual Stages

A Freudian theory describing the stages of a child's development, each characterized by the erogenous zone that is the source of the child's psychosexual energy.

Fixations

Persistent focus on an earlier psychosexual stage due to unresolved conflicts, as per Freudian theory.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory positing children's unconscious desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy towards the same-sex parent.