Question

While Dr. Mitchell was going through a painful divorce, she tended to create unnecessarily difficult exams and gave students low grades. A psychoanalyst would be most likely to view the professor's treatment of students as an example of:

Answer 1

Displacement

Step-by-step explanation:

The professor's treatment of the students is an example of displacement. According to displacement theory, the human mind has the ability to displace the effect of a negative situation or the painful feelings from a negative situation to another situation which the mind distinguished as more acceptable. The professor is transferring the feeling of anger and bitterness arising from the painful divorce on her students.