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Defense Mechanisms Flashcards

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What are Freud’s structures of the mind?

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Id
Ego
Superego

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Describe the Id

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Instinctive biological drives/desires

= “I want”

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Describe the Ego

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Logical problem solving

= “I think”

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Describe the Superego

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Moral conscience based on values of society

= “I should”

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What are Defense Mechanisms?

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How we cope with stress in the world

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What are the 3 categories of Defense Mechanisms?

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Primitive
Basic
Mature

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What are the 3 Primitive Defense Mechanisms?

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Projection
Denial
Splitting

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What are the 4 Mature Defense Mechanisms?

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Humor
Suppression
Altruism
Sublimation

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

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Primitive:
- Projection
- Denial
- Splitting
Mature:
- Humor
- Suppression
- Altruism
- Sublimation
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What is the Projection Defense Mechanism?

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Delusions about external reality - project paranoid ideas onto other people

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

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Projection

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What is the Denial Defense Mechanism?

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Refusing to accept reality because it is too threatening

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Which Primitive Defense Mechanism involves refusing to accept external reality?

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Denial

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What is the Splitting Defense Mechanism?

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Seeing some people as all good and some as all bad

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

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Splitting

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What personality disorder is Splitting commonly seen with?

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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What is the Displacement Defense Mechanism?

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Shifting aggressive impulses to more acceptable target

– separation of emotion from real object

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18
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What Basic Defense Mechanism involves shifting aggression to another target?
ex. Parent yells at child when actually angry with spouse?

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Displacement

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What is the Regression Defense Mechanism?

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Temporary reversion of behavior to more child-like

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

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Regression

21
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What is the Somatization/Hypochondriasis Defense Mechanism?

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

22
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What Basic Defense Mechanism involves transforming negative feelings toward others into negative feelings toward self, pain, anxiety, illness?

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Somatization/Hypochondriasis

23
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What is the Introjection/Identification Defense Mechanism?

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Takes others behaviors/emotions and internalizes them

24
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What Basic Defense Mechanism takes others behaviors/emotions and internalizes them?
ex. Abused child becomes an abusive parent?

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Introjection/Identification

25
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What is the Isolation of Affect Defense Mechanisim?

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Separation of feelings from events – avoid emotions

26
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What Basic Defense Mechanism involves separating feelings from the events and avoids the emotions?

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Isolation of Affect

27
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What is the Intellectualization Defense Mechanism?

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Focusing on the intellectual aspect of a situation to distance self

28
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What Basic Defense Mechanism involves focusing on the intellectual aspect of a situation?
ex. Consider the physiology of the bone protruding from my leg

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Intellectualization

29
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What is the Blocking Defense Mechanism?

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Temporarily inhibits thinking and stops momentarily

30
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What Basic Defense Mechanism temporarily inhibits thinking and person stops momentarily?

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Blocking

31
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What is the Acting Out Defense Mechanism?

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Covering up true feelings by discharging different feeling

32
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What Basic Defense Mechanism involves covering up true feelings by discharging a different feeling?
ex. Bullying to avoid true emotions

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Acting out

33
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What is the Reaction Formation Defense Mechanism?

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Converting unconscious wishes into the opposite

34
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What Basic Defense Mechanism involves converting unconscious wishes into the opposite?
ex. 2 coworkers fight but secretly attracted to each other

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Reaction Formation

35
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What is the Undoing Defense Mechanism?

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Doing an action hoping to fix a prior behavior

36
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What Basic Defense Mechanism involves doing an action hoping to fix a prior behavior?

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Undoing

37
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What is the Rationalization Defense Mechanism?

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Convincing self that unacceptable behavior is acceptable

38
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What Basic Defense mechanism involves convincing self that unacceptable behavior is acceptable and necessary?

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Rationalization

39
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What is the Passive Aggressive Defense Mechanism?

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Aggression toward others expressed indirectly

40
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What Basic Defense Mechanism involves aggression toward others that is expressed indirectly?

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Passive Aggressive

41
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What is the Dissociation Defense Mechanism?

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Change in identity to avoid distress

– out of body experience

42
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What Basic Defense Mechanism involves changing identity to avoid distress?
ex. Assaulted individual describes “watching” it happen like it was to someone else

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Dissociationi

43
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What is the Suppression Defense Mechanism?

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Delaying paying attention to emotional need

44
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What Mature Defense Mechanism involves delaying paying attention to emotional need?
ex. having fun and dealing with it later

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Suppression

45
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What is the Altruism Defense Mechanism?

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Service above one’s own needs

46
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What Mature Defense Mechanism involves putting service above one’s own needs?

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Altruism

47
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What is the Sublimation Defense Mechanism?

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Transforming unpleasant emotion into positive behavior

48
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What Mature Defense Mechanism involves turning unpleasant emotion into a positive behavior?
ex. Angry with friend but decide to clean

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Sublimation

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