Defenses Flashcards
according to the psychoanalytic perspective, what is the central mechanism of defense
A) denial
B) projection
C) repression
D) displacement
C) repression
Freud used the term defense interchangeably with
A) denial
B) projection
C) repression
D) displacement
C) repression
whats is the term used when repression is done consciously
A) denial
B) projection
C) suppression
D) displacement
C) suppression
Repression can be used to block from awareness
A) both id impulses and information that’s painful or upsetting
B) information that’s painful or upsetting
C) id impulses
D) none of the above
A) both id impulses and information that’s painful or upsetting
a defense that occurs when people are overwhelmed by a threatening reality
A) denial
B) projection
C) repression
D) displacement
A) denial
denial and repression differ in
A) the cognitive distortions associated with each defense mechanism
B) the level of consciousness
C) the emotional intensity of the repressed content
D) the source of threat
D) the source of threat
Repression deals with threats that originate within the dynamics of _______. Denial deals with threats of ________
A) mind; other sources
B) other sources; mind
C) internal conflicts; external events
D) conscious awareness; unconscious mind
A) mind ; other sources.
this defense provides a way to hide your knowledge of a disliked aspect of yourself while still seeing that quality expressed, though in a highly distorted form
A) denial
B) projection
C) repression
D) displacement
B) projection
what are the two purposes that projection serves
A) Protecting the ego and avoiding personal responsibility
B) Distorting reality and creating a false sense of security
C) Getting true desires into the open and sidestepping the threat
D) Concealing inner conflicts and promoting self-awareness
C) Getting true desires into the open and sidestepping the threat
in what defense does a desire emerge in such a way that the ego and superego don’t recognize the desire as belonging to you
A) denial
B) projection
C) repression
D) displacement
B) projection
a man who cheats on his income tax may rationalize his behavior as reducing the amount of money spent on weapons in the world would be using what defense
A) rationalisation
B) projection
C) repression
D) displacement
A) rationalisation
If you don’t get into medical school, you may convince yourself that you really didn’t want to be a doctor anyway is an example of
A) rationalisation
B) projection
C) repression
D) displacement
A) rationalisation
A man who’s turned down for a date may convince himself that the woman really wasn’t so great after all.
A) rationalisation
B) projection
C) repression
D) displacement
A) rationalisation
what defense is very common after failures
A) rationalisation
B) projection
C) repression
D) displacement
A) rationalisation
intellectualisation separates and isolates
A) the individual from social interactions
B) emotional experiences from cognitive understanding
C) conscious awareness from unconscious processes
D) threatening event from the feeling that normally would accompany it
D) threatening event from the feeling that normally would accompany it
the student who’s angry with her professor and takes it out on her very understanding boyfriend avoids the anxiety that would arise from attacking her professor
A) rationalisation
B) projection
C) repression
D) displacement
D) displacement
sexual impulses may be expressed as artistic creation
A) rationalisation
B) sublimation
C) repression
D) displacement
B) sublimation
Freud felt that ________, more than any other mechanism, reflects maturity
A) rationalisation
B) sublimation
C) repression
D) displacement
B) sublimation
this defense is a process that keeps problems from occurring, rather than emerging only after anxiety is aroused.
A) rationalisation
B) sublimation
C) repression
D) displacement
B) sublimation
what defense is used to help get true desires into open in one form or another, releasing some of the energy required to repress them
A) rationalisation
B) sublimation
C) projection
D) displacement
C) projection
through this defense the desire emerges in such a way that the ego and superego don’t recognize it as belonging to you
A) rationalisation
B) sublimation
C) projection
D) displacement
C) projection
what defense is used to side step a threat
A) rationalisation
B) sublimation
C) projection
D) displacement
C) projection
