Defense Mechanisms

Question 0

Makes up for real or fancied deficiencies.

A shirt man with a cocky manor

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Compensation

Question 1

Amnesia or forgetting serving to banish unacceptable thoughts from consciousness

Answer 1

Repression

Question 2

Repressed urge disguised as a disturbance if body functions of sensory, voluntary nervous system (blind, deaf, paralysis)

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Conversion

Question 3

Primitive defense inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, behaviors, feelings that are consciously intolerable

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Denial

Question 4

Directing a feeling toward another person or situation that is not its real object, this permitting expression in a less threatening situation.

Answer 4

Displacement

Kick the dog

Question 5

What is a process that enables a person to splint mental functions to allow them to express forbidden impulses without taking responsibility for actions?

Answer 5

Dissociation

Question 6

Overestimation of an admired or attribute if another . May be conscious or unconscious.

Answer 6

Idealization

Question 7

Mechanism where a person patterns himself after a significant other.

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Identification

Question 8

Mastering anxiety by identifying wih a powerful aggressor to counteract feelings of helpless ness and to feel powerful.

Answer 8

Identification with the aggressor

Question 9

Primitive mechanism in which psychic representation if a person is figuratively ingested.

Answer 9

Incorporation

Question 10

Loss of motivation to engage in activity avoided as it might stir up conflict over forbidden impulses. (Writing, learning, work blocks, or social shyness)

Answer 10

Social shyness

Question 11

Loves or hated external objects are symbolically absorbed within self.

Answer 11

Introjection

Question 12

Unacceptable impulse idea act is separated from its original memory source, thereby removing the original emotional charge associated with it.

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Isolation of affect

Question 13

Primitive defense of moving own feeling to someone else. The other person has your thoughts

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Projection

Question 14

Not unconscious. Giving believe able explanation for irrational behavior: motivated by unacceptable unconscious wishes or by defenses to cope with such wishes.

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Rationalization

Question 15

Person adopts affects ideas attitudes behaviors that are opposite if those he harbors consciously or unconsciously. Being excessively sweet to mask anger.

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Reaction formation

Question 16

Partial or symbolic return to more infantile patters of acting or thinking

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Regression

Question 17

Potentially malady price feelings or behaviors are diverted into social acceptable adaptive channels. Turn negative into a positive

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Subliminal ion

Question 18

Unattainable or unacceptable goal emotion or object is replaced by one more attainable or acceptable

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Substitution

Question 19

Mental representation stands for some other thing or attribute. It underlies dream formation and other symptoms with a link between the latent meaning and the symbol.

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Symbolization

Question 20

A person uses words or actions to symbolically reverse unacceptable thoughts feels or actions. I e a person compulsively washing hands to deal with obsessive thought.

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Undoing

Question 21

Defense to deflect hostile aggression or other unacceptable impulses from another self.

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Turing against self

Question 22

Associated survey. Orderliness personality organization in which a person perceives self and others as all good or all bad. A person cannot integrate the good and bad in people.

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Splitting

Question 23

Utilized by persons with border line personality organization. Unconsciously perceiving other behavior as a reflection of ones own identity.

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Projective identification

Question 24

Borderline uses it; person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or others.

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Devaluation

Question 25

Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather thank feelings

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Acting out

Question 26

Deterioration of existing defenses

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Decomposition

Question 27

Client towards worker

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Transference

Question 28

Worker towards client

Answer 28

Counter transference

Question 29

Exclude them from conscious things that are psychologically disturbing

Answer 29

Suppression- not a defense mechanism