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Ego Defenses Flashcards

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What are the traits of the Id?

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From birth
Psychic Energy
Pleasure principles
Unconcious

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What are the traits of the Ego?

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After Birth
Reality Principle
Defense mech to manage Anxiety
Part Concious, Part unconcious
Mediates between Id and Superego
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What are the traits of the Superego?

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Last to Devt
Primarily Unconcious
Punishment for misbehavior
Internalizes parental and societal teaching

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What is the Defense mechanism of Regression?

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Reverting to an earlier stage of Devt under stress. Avoid Anxiety. Toddler Regressing

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What is the Defense mechanism of Denial?

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Failure to acknowledge part of external reality that is obvious to others. Drunk driver denying drinking problem.

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What is the Defense mechanism of Displacement?

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Directing an impulse or emotion on something else instead of an unacceptable target. Kicking the dog when mad at boss

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What is the Defense mechanism of Humor?

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Emphasizing the funny or ironic aspects of a painful situation. avoid making someone uncomfortable

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What is the Defense mechanism of Intellectualization?

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Excessive abstract thinking to avoid painful or upsetting feelings. Thinking about feelings rather than experiencing them.

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What is the Defense mechanism of Isolation?

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Separate the thoughts from the feelings

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What is the Defense mechanism of Passive-Aggression?

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Expressing agression through passive or machoistic means. Agression through not acting.

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What is the Defense mechanism of Projection?

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Taking one’s own unacceptable impulses or feelings and projects them on someone else.

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What is the Defense mechanism of Rationalization?

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State a logiacally plausible and socially acceptable explanation for beh driven by emotion.

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What is the Defense mechanism of Reaction Formation?

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Unconcious feeling that causes anxiety is transformed and concious feeling is exact opposite.

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What is the Defense mechanism of Repression?

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Anxiety or Guilt producing impulses, feeling, or memory is kept out of conciousness. Abused as a child => Can’t remember it.

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What is the Defense mechanism of Splitting?

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Viewing self and others as either all good or all bad. Can switch.

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What is the Defense mechanism of Sublimation?

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Unacceptible impulse is redirected into a socially or culturally worthy purpose/act

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What is the Defense mechanism of Supression?

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Concious postponement of addressing a concious conflict or impulse.

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