Wikipedia Is a Free Online Collaborative Encyclopedia That Had to Resolve

question 52

Multiple Choice

Wikipedia is a free online collaborative encyclopedia that had to resolve each of the following problems except:

• A)people with malicious agendas posting false information
• B)competition from the bigger Encyclopedia Britannica
• C)poor or substandard quality of the content
• D)invasions of privacy

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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.