A manager who feels angry at their supervisor starts being unnecessarily strict with subordinates. This behavior best illustrates:

• Projection

• Displacement

• Reaction formation

• Sublimation

A teenager who fails to get selected for a sports team begins mocking others who train seriously, saying, “They’re wasting their time.” This illustrates:

• Rationalization

• Projection

• Reaction formation

• Displacement

A person who becomes obsessively clean and rigid about order may be showing fixation at the:

• Oral-receptive stage

• Anal-retentive stage

• Phallic stage

• Genital stage

A young adult who overindulges in eating, smoking, and gossiping may have unresolved conflict from the .................. psychosexual stage.

When the ego uses rationalization, it aims to:

• Replace moral guilt with physical action

• Reduce anxiety by inventing acceptable explanations

• Express impulses directly

• Increase libido

The Oedipus complex resolves successfully when a boy:

• Represses sexual desires for the mother

• Identifies with the father and internalizes his values

• Develops a fixation on the mother figure

• Rejects both parents

Freud believed fixation occurs when:

• The ego fails to use defense mechanisms.

• A stage’s conflict remains unresolved.

• Libido shifts directly to the next stage.

• The superego dominates personality.

A psychologist notices that a client interprets symbols and dreams using universal myths. This aligns with:

• Personal unconscious

• Collective unconscious

• Id impulses

• Persona

A person who focuses on objective logic rather than emotional values is likely dominated by:

• Feeling function

• Thinking function

• Intuition

• Sensation

A nurse who makes decisions based on empathy and human connection demonstrates dominance of:

• Thinking

• Sensation

• Feeling

• Intuition