Ego Defenses

Question 1

<p>Acting out</p>

Answer 1

<p>Unacceptable feelings and thoughts are expressed through actions (i.e. tantrums); Extreme forms can result in dissociative identity disorder</p>

Question 2

<p>Dissociation</p>

Answer 2

<p>Temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress</p>

Question 3

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Denial</p>

Answer 3

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Avoidance of awareness of some painful reality</p>

Question 4

<p>Displacement</p>

Answer 4

<p>Process whereby avoided ideas and feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object (vs. projection); Negative feelings transferred to more negative feelings</p>

Question 5

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Fixation</p>

Answer 5

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Partially remaining at a more childish level of development (vs. regression); i.e. men fixating on sports games</p>

Question 6

<p>Identification (aka introjection)</p>

Answer 6

<p>Modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (though not necessarily admired); i.e. abused child identifies him/herself as abuser</p>

Question 7

<p>Isolation (or affect)</p>

Answer 7

<p>Separation of feelings from ideas and events; i.e. soldier tells horrific tales without emotion</p>

Question 8

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Projection</p>

Answer 8

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>An unacceptable internal impulse is attributed to an external source (vs. displacement); i.e. gay man hates gay ppl for how they make him feel</p>

Question 9

<p>Blocking</p>

Answer 9

<p>Temporarily inhibition thinking but continuing to build more tension (seen in schizophrenia)</p>

Question 10

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Schizoid fantasy</p>

Answer 10

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Avoiding interpersonal intimacy to resoled conflict and obtain gratificaiton</p>

Question 11

<p>Rationalization</p>

Answer 11

<p>Proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for toher reasons, usually to avoid self-blame; i.e. after getting fired saying the job wasn't important anyways</p>

Question 12

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Reaction formation</p>

Answer 12

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Process whereby a wardd-off idea or feeling is replaced by an unconsciously derived emphasis on the opposite (vs. isolation); i.e. a patient with libidinous thoughts enters a monastery</p>

Question 13

<p>Regression</p>

Answer 13

<p>Turning back the maturational clock and going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world (vs. fixation); i.e. children under stress or illness revert to bed-wetting even-though toilet-trained</p>

Question 14

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Repression</p>

Answer 14

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Involuntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness (vs. suppression)</p>

Question 15

<p>Splitting</p>

Answer 15

<p>Belief that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity. Seen in borderline personality disorder</p>

Question 16

<p>Altruism</p>

Answer 16

<p>Mature; Important to note that these people act altruistically in many different areas, not just those related to the transgression. Guilty feelings alleviated by unsolicited genorosity toward others; a socially favorable displacement (i.e. arsonist gives to FD)</p>

Question 17

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Humor</p>

Answer 17

<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Mature; Appreciating the amusing nature of an anxiety-provoking or adverse situation</p>

Question 18

<p>Sublimation</p>

Answer 18

<p>Mature; Process whereby one replaces an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar to the wish but does not conflict with one's value system (vs. reaction formation)</p>

Question 19

<p>Suppression</p>

Answer 19

<p>Mature; Voluntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness (vs. repression); i.e. choosing not to think about this test until the week of the exam</p>