Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

What are Freud’s structures of the mind?

Answer 1

Id
Ego
Superego

Question 2

Describe the Id

Answer 2

Instinctive biological drives/desires

= “I want”

Question 3

Describe the Ego

Answer 3

Logical problem solving

= “I think”

Question 4

Describe the Superego

Answer 4

Moral conscience based on values of society

= “I should”

Question 5

What are Defense Mechanisms?

Answer 5

How we cope with stress in the world

Question 6

What are the 3 categories of Defense Mechanisms?

Answer 6

Primitive
Basic
Mature

Question 7

What are the 3 Primitive Defense Mechanisms?

Answer 7

Projection
Denial
Splitting

Question 8

What are the 4 Mature Defense Mechanisms?

Answer 8

Humor
Suppression
Altruism
Sublimation

Question 9

List the Primitive and Mature Defenses… the rest are Basic!

Answer 9

Primitive:
- Projection
- Denial
- Splitting
Mature:
- Humor
- Suppression
- Altruism
- Sublimation

Question 10

What is the Projection Defense Mechanism?

Answer 10

Delusions about external reality - project paranoid ideas onto other people

Question 11

Which Primitive Defense Mechanism involves projecting paranoid ideas onto other people?

Answer 11

Projection

Question 12

What is the Denial Defense Mechanism?

Answer 12

Refusing to accept reality because it is too threatening

Question 13

Which Primitive Defense Mechanism involves refusing to accept external reality?

Answer 13

Denial

Question 14

What is the Splitting Defense Mechanism?

Answer 14

Seeing some people as all good and some as all bad

Question 15

What Primitive Defense Mechanism involves seeing some people as all good and some as all bad?

Answer 15

Splitting

Question 16

What personality disorder is Splitting commonly seen with?

Answer 16

Borderline Personality Disorder

Question 17

What is the Displacement Defense Mechanism?

Answer 17

Shifting aggressive impulses to more acceptable target

– separation of emotion from real object

Question 18

What Basic Defense Mechanism involves shifting aggression to another target?
ex. Parent yells at child when actually angry with spouse?

Answer 18

Displacement

Question 19

What is the Regression Defense Mechanism?

Answer 19

Temporary reversion of behavior to more child-like

Question 20

What Basic Defense Mechanism involves reverting behavior to more child-like when faced with stress?

Answer 20

Regression

Question 21

What is the Somatization/Hypochondriasis Defense Mechanism?

Answer 21

Transforming negative feelings toward others as negative feelings toward self, pain, illness, anxiety

Question 22

What Basic Defense Mechanism involves transforming negative feelings toward others into negative feelings toward self, pain, anxiety, illness?

Answer 22

Somatization/Hypochondriasis

Question 23

What is the Introjection/Identification Defense Mechanism?

Answer 23

Takes others behaviors/emotions and internalizes them

Question 24

What Basic Defense Mechanism takes others behaviors/emotions and internalizes them?
ex. Abused child becomes an abusive parent?

Answer 24

Introjection/Identification

Question 25

What is the Isolation of Affect Defense Mechanisim?

Answer 25

Separation of feelings from events -- avoid emotions

Question 26

What Basic Defense Mechanism involves separating feelings from the events and avoids the emotions?

Answer 26

Isolation of Affect

Question 27

What is the Intellectualization Defense Mechanism?

Answer 27

Focusing on the intellectual aspect of a situation to distance self

Question 28

What Basic Defense Mechanism involves focusing on the intellectual aspect of a situation? ex. Consider the physiology of the bone protruding from my leg

Answer 28

Intellectualization

Question 29

What is the Blocking Defense Mechanism?

Answer 29

Temporarily inhibits thinking and stops momentarily

Question 30

What Basic Defense Mechanism temporarily inhibits thinking and person stops momentarily?

Answer 30

Blocking

Question 31

What is the Acting Out Defense Mechanism?

Answer 31

Covering up true feelings by discharging different feeling

Question 32

What Basic Defense Mechanism involves covering up true feelings by discharging a different feeling? ex. Bullying to avoid true emotions

Answer 32

Acting out

Question 33

What is the Reaction Formation Defense Mechanism?

Answer 33

Converting unconscious wishes into the opposite

Question 34

What Basic Defense Mechanism involves converting unconscious wishes into the opposite? ex. 2 coworkers fight but secretly attracted to each other

Answer 34

Reaction Formation

Question 35

What is the Undoing Defense Mechanism?

Answer 35

Doing an action hoping to fix a prior behavior

Question 36

What Basic Defense Mechanism involves doing an action hoping to fix a prior behavior?

Answer 36

Undoing

Question 37

What is the Rationalization Defense Mechanism?

Answer 37

Convincing self that unacceptable behavior is acceptable

Question 38

What Basic Defense mechanism involves convincing self that unacceptable behavior is acceptable and necessary?

Answer 38

Rationalization

Question 39

What is the Passive Aggressive Defense Mechanism?

Answer 39

Aggression toward others expressed indirectly

Question 40

What Basic Defense Mechanism involves aggression toward others that is expressed indirectly?

Answer 40

Passive Aggressive

Question 41

What is the Dissociation Defense Mechanism?

Answer 41

Change in identity to avoid distress | -- out of body experience

Question 42

What Basic Defense Mechanism involves changing identity to avoid distress? ex. Assaulted individual describes "watching" it happen like it was to someone else

Answer 42

Dissociationi

Question 43

What is the Suppression Defense Mechanism?

Answer 43

Delaying paying attention to emotional need

Question 44

What Mature Defense Mechanism involves delaying paying attention to emotional need? ex. having fun and dealing with it later

Answer 44

Suppression

Question 45

What is the Altruism Defense Mechanism?

Answer 45

Service above one's own needs

Question 46

What Mature Defense Mechanism involves putting service above one's own needs?

Answer 46

Altruism

Question 47

What is the Sublimation Defense Mechanism?

Answer 47

Transforming unpleasant emotion into positive behavior

Question 48

What Mature Defense Mechanism involves turning unpleasant emotion into a positive behavior? ex. Angry with friend but decide to clean

Answer 48

Sublimation