PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

PSYCHOLOGY MOTIVATION AND EMOTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Alondra is an alcoholic. She attempts to keep this fact hidden from her co-workers by constantly bringing up the virtues of abstinence and living a ‘clean’ lifestyle. This is an example of which type of defense mechanism?
A
Projection
B
Regression
C
Displacement
D
Reaction-Formation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Rationalization is when someone decides or comes up with a seemingly logical explanation to justify an event and avoid the true explanation (e.g. Tom stating that he never liked his job after getting fired). While intriguing, the other choices are incorrect.

Detailed explanation-2: -Your boyfriend breaks up with you but you don’t want to believe it so you pretend like you never heard it and still act like you are together.

Detailed explanation-3: -Identification. The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos. Fixation. According to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.

Detailed explanation-4: -When the body gets too hot, it begins to perspire or sweat to cool itself off. If the perspiration is not able to evaporate, the body cannot regulate its temperature. Evaporation is a cooling process.

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