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storky111

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A four-year-old girl sucks her thumb, a teenager binges on food, and an adult woman bites her fingernails. According to the Freudian theory of psychosexual development, all three are fixated at the ________ stage.
 
  a. oral
 b. anal
 c. phallic
  d. genital

Question 2

Mrs. B received a very poor rating by her supervisor, who had been constantly criticizing her in front of her coworkers. When she got home, her kids ran up to greet her, all talking at once. Mrs. B responded by yelling, Leave me alone Can't you see I'm tired? According to psychoanalytic theory, this is an example of the defense mechanism known as
 
  a. displacement.
 b. projection.
 c. repression.
 d. rationalization.



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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