While Professor Gomez was going through a painful divorce,he tended to create unnecessarily difficult tests and gave his students unusually low grades.A psychoanalyst would be most likely to view the professor's treatment of students as an example of
A) reaction formation.
B) displacement.
C) projection.
D) regression.

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Displacement involves redirecting emotions or reactions from the original source to a safer or more convenient target. In this case, Professor Gomez is redirecting his emotional distress from his divorce onto his students by creating difficult tests and giving low grades.

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