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Category - Social and Cultural Bases of Behavior

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A number of psychologists expanded on Freud’s theories and classical psychoanalysis by integrating newer ideas into his original framework. Which Neo-Freudian subset focused on integrating parts of the self and integrating good with bad to form whole object representations?

Ego psychologists
Object-relations theorists
Object formation development theorists
Neo-Freudians

Explanation

Answer: B - Object-relations theory posits that children are “object-related” to caretakers at birth and that integrating various parts of the self, good and bad, is necessary to attain object consistency. This theory deals with the ability to maintain satisfying interpersonal relationships.

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