Mental Health Concepts

Question 1

ID ego is?

Answer 1

The drive for survival and pleasure

Question 2

The ego is?

Answer 2

The conscious mind

Question 3

The superego is?

Answer 3

Society influences and value system

Question 4

Compensation

Answer 4

Making up for your deficiency by excelling in another area

Question 5

Conversion

Answer 5

Taking your emotions and turning them into physical symptoms

Question 6

Denial

Answer 6

Pretending that something is not happening

Question 7

Displacement

Answer 7

Putting the emotions you have for one person onto a different person

Question 8

Dissociation

Answer 8

Separating yourself from your emotions

Question 9

Identification

Answer 9

Taking on characteristics from another person. Who the person is remains Intact

Question 10

Introjection

Answer 10

Taking on someone else’s values for your own.

Question 11

Projection

Answer 11

Attributing your own traits onto others. Blaming your shortcomings on someone else.

Question 12

Rationalization

Answer 12

Creating a plausible but untrue explanation for your own behavior.

Question 13

Reaction formation

Answer 13

Doing the opposite of what you feel to hide your feelings

Question 14

Regression

Answer 14

Doing behaviors that are done in an earlier less mature phase

Question 15

Sublimation

Answer 15

Discharge of aggressive or sexual energy into another physically acceptable way like sports

Question 16

Suppression

Answer 16

Conscious exclusion of feelings, impulses or memories

Question 17

Repression

Answer 17

Unconscious exclusion of memories