Mental Exam

Question 1

Defense Mechanism:
Making up for an act

Ex: exercising after eating junk food

Answer 1

Undoing

Question 2

Defense Mechanism:

Justifying an action by an acceptable explanation

Ex: I did it because everyone is doing it.

Answer 2

Rationalization

Question 3

Defense Mechanism:

Reverting to an earlier stage in life

Answer 3

Regression

Question 4

Defense Mechanism:

Escaping unpleasant thoughts, feelings, experiences, and ignoring their existence

Answer 4

Denial

Question 5

Defense Mechanism:

“You’re cheating on me!” (When I’m the one cheating in actuality)

Answer 5

Projection

Question 6

Defense Mechanism:

Medical condition with no specific cause

Answer 6

Somatization

Question 7

Defense Mechanism:

Saying what you mean

Answer 7

Altruism

Question 8

Defense Mechanism:

Unacceptable feelings are hidden and you do/say the opposite

Ex: hates the kid but says “you’re so cute!”

Answer 8

Reaction Formation

Question 9

Defense Mechanism:

Unconscious exclusion of unpleasant emotions/experiences

Ex: Man fights w/ wife….forgets her birthday

Answer 9

Repression

Question 10

Defense Mechanism:

Transference of emotions from one person onto another

Ex: boss yells at you and you take it out on your child

Answer 10

Displacement

Question 11

Defense Mechanism:

Consciously putting worry aside to focus on something else

Ex: study for boards, neglect paying rent

Answer 11

Suppression

Question 12

Defense Mechanism:

Substituting acceptable activity for unacceptable impulses

Answer 12

Sublimation

Question 13

Defense Mechanism:

Take on characteristics of others to cope

Ex: child threatened in school, takes on strong defender character of father

Answer 13

Introjection

Question 14

Defense Mechanism:

Attributing oneself the character is ice of another person/group

Ex: child dresses up and pretending to be a doctor w/ a stuff animal

Answer 14

Identification

Question 15

Defense Mechanism:

Being a coach instead of a basketball player

Answer 15

Compensations

Question 16

Body dystrophin disorder

Answer 16

Women who sees themselves as fat when they are completely fine

Question 17

Hoarder

Answer 17

Can’t get rid of items

Question 18

Trichotillomania

Answer 18

Pulling out hair

Question 19

Dermotillomania

Answer 19

Picks/pulls out skin

Question 20

Types of obsessive-compulsive disorders

Answer 20

1) body dystrophic
2) hoarder
3) trichotillomania
4) dermotillomania

Question 21

Peplau’s levels of anxiety

Answer 21

Mild, moderate, severe, panic

Question 22

Anxiety disorder in which the person fears being in places places or situations from which escape might become difficult or embarrassing.

Answer 22

Agoraphobia

Question 23

Anxiety disorder in which the person excessively worries

Answer 23

Generalized

Question 24

A persistent irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a desire for avoidance of the object, activity, or situation

Ex: spiders, dogs, heights, etc.

Answer 24

Specific phobia

Question 25

Type of anxiety disorder in which the person fears a situation where others can judge them negatively

Answer 25

Social

Question 26

Trichotillomania

Answer 26

Pulling out hair

Question 27

Dermotillomania

Answer 27

Pick/pulling of the skin

Question 28

Hans Selye’s General Adaptation System (GAS)

Answer 28

Alarm
Resistance or adaptation
Exhaustion

Question 29

A negative draining energy that results in anxiety, depression, confusion, etc.

Ex: death in the family

Answer 29

Distress

Question 30

A positive energy that motivates and results in feeling of happiness, hopefulness, and purposeful movement.

Ex: birth of new baby, plying favorite sport, vacationing, etc.

Answer 30

Eustress