S Your new gas furnace may have been installed in one of two. ways, as a direct-vent (2-pipe-Fig. 2) application or as a. non-direct vent (1-pipe-Fig. 3) application. S In a direct-vent (2-pipe) application,your furnace uses air. from outside the home for combustion and ventsflue gas to the. outdoors.
For the biological concept, see Anti-predator adaptation. A defence mechanism is an unconscious psychological mechanism that reduces anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli. Sigmund Freud was one of the first proponents of this construct.
The more primitive a defense mechanism, the less effective it works for a person over the long-term. However, more primitive defense mechanisms are usually very effective short-term, and hence are favored by many people and children especially (when such primitive defense mechanisms are first learned).