Question

While Professor Gomez was going through a painful divorce he tended to create unnecessarily difficult tests and gave his students unusually low grades a psychoanalyst would be most likely to view the professor's treatment of students as an example of:__________.
A) reaction formation.
B) rationalization.
C) displacement.
D) projection.
E) regression.

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Displacement

Explanation:

While Professor Gomez was going through a painful divorce he tended to create unnecessarily difficult tests and gave his students unusually low grades a psychoanalyst would be most likely to view the professor's treatment of students as an example of displacement. Mr Gomez due to his painful divorce transfered his negative feelings to the students by conducting unnecessarily difficult tests for the student and still gave them low grades which is so unusual of him. This shows that Mr Gomez transferred his anger from the original source of the emotion to a less threatening person. This is known as displacement.