Defense Mechanisms Flashcards
1
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Are defense mechanisms conscious or unconscious?
A
Unconscious
2
Q
What is Acting Out?
A
- less mature defense mechanism
- The individual deals with emotional conflict or external/internal stressors by action rather than by feelings.
3
Q
What is Denial?
A
- Less mature defense mechanism
- The individual deals with emotional conflict or internal/external stressors by refusing to acknowledge some painful aspect of external reality or subjective experience that would be apparent to others.
4
Q
What is idealization?
A
- less mature defense mechanism
- The individual deals with the emotional conflict or internal/external stressors by attributing exaggerated positive qualities to others.
5
Q
What is devaluation?
A
- less mature defense mechanism
- The individual deals with emotional conflict or internal/external stressors by attributing exaggerated negative qualities to one’s self or others
6
Q
What is Dissociation?
A
- less mature defense mechanism
- The individual deals with emotional conflict or internal/external stressors with a breakdown of consciousness, memory, perception of self or the environment.
- usually very traumatic memories
7
Q
What is Help-Rejecting Complaining?
A
- Less mature defense mechanism
- The individual deals with emotional conflict or internal/external stressors by complaining or making repetitious requests for help that disguise covert feelings of hostility or reproach toward others, which are then expressed by rejecting the suggestions, advice, or help offered by others.
8
Q
What is Projection?
A
- lesser defense mechanism
- The individual deals with emotional conflict or internal/external stressors by falsely attributing to another his or her own unacceptable feelings, impulses, or thoughts
9
Q
What is Splitting?
A
- less mature defense mechanism
- The individual deals with emotional conflict or internal/external stressors by compartmentalizing opposite emotional states and failing to integrate the positive and negative qualities of individuals into a cohesive picture
10
Q
What is displacement?
A
- moderately mature defense mechanism
- The individual deals with emotional conflict or internal/ external stressors by transferring a feeling about, or response to, an object onto another (usually less threatening) substitute object.
“shit flows downhill”
11
Q
What is Identification?
A
- moderately mature defense mechanism
- The individual deals with emotional conflict or internal/external stressors accompanying separation from or loss of an object (real or threatened) by identifying with the loved object
- children playing dress up
12
Q
What is intellectualization?
A
- moderately mature defense mechanism
- The individual deals with emotional conflict or internal/external stressors by the excessive use of abstract thinking or the making of generalizations to control or minimize disturbing feelings.
13
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What is Introjection?
A
- moderately mature defense mechanism
- The individual deals with emotional conflict or internal/external stressors by internalizing qualities of an object (or person), often obliterating the distinction between the individual and the object.
=stockholm syndrome
14
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What is isolation of affect?
A
- moderately mature defense mechanism
- The individual deals with emotional conflict or internal/external stressors by the separation of ideas from the feelings originally associated with them.
15
Q
What is Rationalization?
A
- moderately mature defense mechanism
- The individual deals with emotional conflict or internal/external stressors by concealing the true motivations for his or her own thoughts, actions, or feelings through the elaboration of reassuring or self-serving, but incorrect, explanations.
