Repression sublimation rationalization displacement regression reaction formation projection denial a. we expend energy on prosocial activities in order to avoid participating in undesirable activities. b. we refuse to perceive "reality" in order to protect ourselves from it. c. we put our own unacceptable feelings or behaviors onto other people. d. we avoid painful thoughts by forcing them into the back of our mind (freud considered this to be the most basic defense mechanism) e. we try to create logical explanations of our behavior in order to justify it. f. we express feelings that are opposite to the undesirable ones we really feel. g. we retreat to behaving or thinking like a child in order to avoid adult issues. h. we vent our anger against people or objects that are not dangerous to us.

What rules did the monroe doctrine set for the united states?

The process of learning acceptable social behavior and values is called

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?