Author Question: A five-year-old boy has his first day of kindergarten the next day. The night before his first ... (Read 53 times)

lidoalex · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

A five-year-old boy has his first day of kindergarten the next day.

The night before his first day, he begins to eat with his hands at the dinner table, cry when his mother won't dress him for bed, suck his thumb, and whine when his mother won't stay with him until he falls asleep. Which of Freud's defense mechanisms best describes this situation? A) Repression
B) Regression
C) Rationalization
D) Remission
E) Regulation

Question 2

Cattell named his 16 personality factors with letters of the alphabet because

A) he didn't want people to be biased by the names.
B) letters fit better into mathematical equations.
C) it was suggested by a colleague.
D) it was important for them to be alphabetical.
E) that was a way to represent their ordering.