Psych: Conditioning and Ego Defenses Flashcards
1
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- Expressing unacceptable feelings and thoughts through actions.
- Tantrums
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Acting Out
2
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- Temporary, Drastic change in Personality, Memory, Consciousness, or Motor Behavior to Avoid emotional stress
- Extreme forms can result in Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)
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Dissociation
3
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- Avoiding the awareness of some painful reality
- A common reaction in newly diagnosed AIDS and Cancer pts.
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Denial
4
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- Transferring avoided Ideas and Feelings to some Neutral person or Object (vs. Projection)
- Mother yells at her child, because her husband yelled at her
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Displacement
5
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- Partially remaining at a more Childish level of Development (vs. regression)
- Men fixating on Sports games
- Behaving like a child when they are around their Mother
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Fixation
6
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- Modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (though not necessarily admired)
- Abused child identifies w/ an Abuser and then adopts those behaviors
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Identification
7
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- Separating feelings from Ideas and Events
- Describing murder in Graphic detail w/ NO emotional response
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Isolation (of affect)
8
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- Attributing an unacceptable Internal Impulse to an External source (vs. Displacement)
- A man who wants another woman thinks his wife is cheating on him
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Projection
9
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- Proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self-blame
- After getting fired, claiming that the job was not important anyway
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Rationalization
10
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- Replacing a warded-off idea or feeling by an (unconsciously derived) emphasis on its opposite (vs. Sublimation)
- A patient w/ libidinous thoughts enters a Monastery
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Reaction Formation
11
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- Turning back the Maturational Clock and going back to Earlier Modes of Dealing w/ the World (vs. Fixation)
- Seen in Children under stress such as illness, punishment, or birth of a new sibling (bedwetting in previously toilet-trained child when hospitilized)
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Regression
12
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- Involuntary withholding an Idea or Feeling from conscious awareness (vs. Suppression)
- Not remembering a Conflictual or Traumatic Experience; Pressing Bad Thoughts into the Unconscious
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Repression
13
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- Believing that people are either ALL GOOD or ALL BAD at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity
- Commonly seen in Borderline Personality Disorder.
- A patient says that all the nurses are cold and insensitive but that the doctors are warm and friendly
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Splitting
14
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- Alleviating guilty feeling by unsolicited generosity toward others
- Mafia boss makes large donation to charity
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Altruism
15
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- Appreciating the amusing nature of an anxiety-provoking or adverse situation
- Nervous medical student jokes about the boards
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Humor
