Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

What are Defense mechanisms?

Answer 1

Strategies that are used to lessen anxiety/cope with stressors.
May be conscious or unconscious
Sometimes considered a type of cognitive distortion.
Also called EGO DEFENSE MECHANISMS

Question 2

Always Positive - Altruism

Answer 2

reaching out to others

Question 3

Adaptive or Maladaptive - Suppression

Answer 3

conscious exclusion

Question 4

Adaptive or Maladaptive - Repression

Answer 4

unconscious exclusion

Question 5

adaptive or maladaptive - Regression

Answer 5

returning to prior developmental stage

Question 6

adaptive or maladaptive - Displacement

Answer 6

shifting feelings to safer target

Question 7

adaptive or maladaptive - Reaction Formation

Answer 7

acting the opposite of feelings

Question 8

adaptive or maladaptive - Undoing

Answer 8

making up for prior behavior

Question 9

adaptive or maladaptive - Rationalization

Answer 9

excusing one’s own behavior

Question 10

adaptive or maladaptive - Intellectualization

Answer 10

separation of emotional focus

Question 11

adaptive or maladaptive - Compensation

Answer 11

overachieving to offset weakness

Question 12

adaptive or maladaptive - Conversion

Answer 12

unconscious physical manifestation

Question 13

adaptive or maladaptive - Disassociation

Answer 13

disruption in conscious/memory

Question 14

adaptive or maladaptive - Projection

Answer 14

attributing/assigning unacceptable thoughts/behaviors from self to someone else

Question 15

Always positive - sublimation

Answer 15

substituting socially acceptable activity for an unacceptable impulse