When You Make a Downward Comparison,it Will Typically ________ Self-Esteem

question 71

Multiple Choice

When you make a downward comparison,it will typically ________ self-esteem.

• A) decrease your own
• B) increase your own
• C) have little effect on your own
• D) increase another person's

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Definitions:

Psychotherapist

A trained professional who treats mental health problems and emotional difficulties through talking and psychological techniques.

Psychodynamic Approach

An approach to psychology emphasizing unconscious thought, the conflict between biological drives (such as the drive for sex) and society’s demands, and early childhood family experiences.

Unconscious Conflicts

Internal struggles arising from unresolved, often repressed, desires or impulses that can lead to mental disturbances or disorders according to psychoanalytic theories.

Psychoanalysis

Freud’s therapeutic technique for analyzing an individual’s unconscious thoughts.