At Which Age Would You Be Most Likely to Find

question 65

Multiple Choice

At which age would you be most likely to find the highest levels of self-esteem?

• A) preschool years
• B) early elementary-school years
• C) late elementary-school years
• D) junior high years

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Definitions:

Neurotic Anxiety

A form of anxiety resulting from an unconscious fear that the ego's control over unacceptable impulses of the id will fail, leading to punishment for inappropriate thoughts or behaviors.

Unconscious

In Freud’s topographic model, the part of personality that contains material that cannot easily be brought into awareness.

Implicit Punishments

Penalties for undesirable behavior that are not directly expressed or are implied, affecting behavior modification subtly.

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies brought into play by the unconscious mind to manipulate, deny, or distort reality in order to defend against feelings of anxiety and unacceptable impulses.