Psych Final - Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

compliance

Answer 1

behavior when the person is motivated by a desire to gain a reward

Question 2

denial

Answer 2

deny that something is happening; deny its seriousness; or deny responsibility by blaming something/someone else

Question 3

groupthink

Answer 3

the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives

Question 4

identification

Answer 4

response to a social influence brought about by an individuals’ desire to be like the influencer. The individual does not behave in a particular way because it is intrinsically satisfying but because it puts the individual in a satisfying relationship with the person or persons with whom the individual identifies.

Question 5

intellectualization

Answer 5

when reasoning is used to block confrontation with an unconscious conflict and its associated emotional stress where thinking is used to avoid feeling

Question 6

projection

Answer 6

when we reject what is “unacceptable” about us by applying those qualities to those around us and then judging them

Question 7

reaction formation

Answer 7

when a person feels an urge to do or say something and then actually does or says something that is effectively the opposite of what they really want

Question 8

repression

Answer 8

attempt by an individual to repel one’s own desires and impulses towards pleasurable instincts by excluding the desire from one’s consciousness and holding or subduing it in the unconscious

Question 9

splitting

Answer 9

interpreting something as all good or all bad