Question

"Bill, a 7 year-old boy, wears a football jacket with the logo of his favorite football team to school every day, and feels bigger and stronger because of this. Bill is illustrating the defense mechanism of" a. identification.

b. intellectualization.
c. regression.
d. repression.

Answer 1

A. Identification

Step-by-step explanation:

In psychoanalytic theory, a defence mechanism is an unconscious psychological mechanism that reduces anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli.

Identification is a psychological process whereby the individual assimilates an aspect, property, or attribute of the other and is transformed wholly or partially by the model that other provides. It is by means of a series of identifications that the personality is constituted and specified. The roots of the concept can be found in Freud's writings

According to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality, the id is the personality component made up of unconscious psychic energy that works to satisfy basic urges, needs, and desires. The id operates based on the pleasure principle, which demands immediate gratification of needs.