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Whenever Olivia feels bad about an exam performance, she visits the professor and breaks down into tears. As the professor attempts to console her, she is psychologically returned to her childhood. Sigmund Freud would say that Olivia is using __________ to alleviate her anxieties about her academic abilities.

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Regression. Olivia is using regression to alleviate her anxieties about her academic abilities
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