I’m taking Psych 101, and once a week, students meet with a TA, to get ?'s answered, and concepts clarified. (class has 200+ people ,sections about 20). We had been discussing defense mechanisms, and in my discussion section I asked the TA,“Which dm is ‘Stockholm Syndrome’?” He was stumped completely, (I assume he knew what ‘SS’ was, just couldn’t figure out whicxh mechanism it was).
Well, the main component would be identification. But it’s a complicated syndrome and probably doesn’t play out exactly the same way in all cases.
My proffessor told me it was, as Freud called it,“Identification with the Agressor”, and that Denial was the defense mechanism most applicable. She had a,“C’mon, challenge me,” attitude about it. (but in a good way).
Speaking as a former TA (English, though, not Psych), I can tell you that we are by no means all-knowing and yeah, we can be stumped.
Of course, had I been in the position of your TA, I would have praised you for your astute question and then posed the question to the discussion group at large.
Then I’d just agree with whichever group member gave the best answer. 
It’s not all that difficult to stump TAs and psych is an easy subject to stump even PHDs because it isn’t an exact science but it is cool that you did it in a 101 class. Good work!
I thought the point of School and College is to stump as many PhD’s as possible
auntie em:He ABSOLUTELY praised my “great question” (his words). Nobody in discussion gave that great an answer AIR.