The correct answer is C) prevent threatening thoughts from attaining awareness.
If you ask Freud, the purpose of defense mechanisms is to prevent threatening thoughts from attaining awareness.
According to psychologists Anna Freud, the purpose of defense mechanisms is some type of auto defenses that protect an individual, unconsciously. The protection is against anxiety or not desired thoughts or feelings, even guilt. Among those mechanisms we find, displacement, denial, repression, regression, or projection.
Anna Freud is the daughter of the renowned psychologist, Sigmund Freud.
Answer:
A. a life course perspective to define normal aging and to distinguish it from pathological aging.
Explanation:
Continuity theory uses <em>a life course perspective to define normal aging and to distinguish it from pathological aging</em>. The continuity theory of aging states that when making choices older adults try to preserve existing patterns by applying the knowledge and strategies that they are familiar with. This theory states that when aging people tend to continue with their familiar lifestyle, changes and adaptations are consistent with this.
The opening of King's speech uses metaphors to compare the promises of freedom made in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Emancipation Proclamation and the failure of these documents to procure those freedoms for all. He then turns to a metaphor familiar to all--the weather.
Quote: "This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."
Metaphor: King compares the legitimate anger of African-Americans to sweltering summer heat and freedom and equality to invigorating autumn.
Analysis: Anyone who's visited Washington D.C. in August has a keen understanding of what a "sweltering summer" produces--frustration, suffering, restlessness and a longing for relief. The hundreds of thousands in attendance would have clearly understood the implications of the need for relief from a sweltering summer day and the need for legislation that would procure rights for minorities; relief that began to arrive with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
