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) displacement.
b) regression.
c) reaction formation.
d) projection

Answer 1

Displacement ( A )

Step-by-step explanation:

A psychoanalyst would be most likely to view the professor.s treatment as an example of Displacement of aggression. this is because his painful divorce and his students have nothing in common hence they are not suppose to bear the consequences of his painful divorce through difficult tests and low grades.

Emotional backlashes are very rampant in places of work especially when the emotionally unstable individual is in charge of sensitive actions and functions. it is advisable no to work or perform certain duties if you are not emotionally stable.

Answer 2

Answer: A

Explanation: The correct answer is letter A, displacement. This is a defense mechanism described by Sigmund Freud and he says that it works desplacing your feelings towards a situation into another that we can take control of and use it to deal with it.

Projection is when you unconsciously put your negative feelings about yourself into another person; regression is when we go back to earlier development states in order to act some type of way that someday were useful to deal with things and reaction formation is when we take something we like unconsciously that we cannot tolarate and externalize it as the opposite.