Asa is buying a gift for his mother, an overbearing woman who is difficult to . when a
clerk asks him who he is shopping for he replies, "my smother" instead of "my mother." what
does this exemplify?
a. archetype
b. collective unconscious
c. freudian slip
d. repressed memory

C. Freudian slip

Explanation:

A Freudian slip happens when somebody says one thing when they intended to say something else. This is named after Freud, the famous psychoanalyst who lay the foundation of introspection and the "talking cure".

Often, words are closely linked to each other. "Smother" is close to "mother", it just has one extra letter. However, "smother" describes her mother very well. Her subconscious chose the word to describe this trait.

The archetype is a cultural, collective symbol, the collective unconscious is the set of unconscious cultural norms ingrained in a population and a repressed memory is a memory (usually traumatic) that a person is trying to forget, but which cannot go without leaving traces.

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)