Psychology

Question 1

Classical Conditioning

Answer 1

INVOLUNTARY responses; a natural response is elicited by a conditioned stimulus
i.e. Pavlov’s Dogs

Question 2

Operant Conditioning

Answer 2

VOLUNTARY responses elicited due to a punishment or a reward system.
Includes reinforcement, punishment, and extinction

Question 3

Transference

Answer 3

Patient projects feelings of important life figures onto physician (sees them as a parent)

Question 4

Countertransference

Answer 4

Doctor projects feelings of important life figures onto the patient

Question 5

Acting Out

Answer 5

Ex: Tantrum

Question 6

Denial

Answer 6

Avoiding the awareness of a painful reality

Ex: Denying cancer diagnosis

Question 7

Displacement

Answer 7

Transferring feelings to uninvolved party

ex: Mother yelling at child after being yelled at by husband

Question 8

Dissociation

Answer 8

Temporary drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, to avoid emotional stress

Question 9

Fixation

Answer 9

Partially remaining at a lower level of development

Question 10

Idealization

Answer 10

Ignoring negative thoughts of others, while expressing the positive ones

Question 11

Identification

Answer 11

Modeling behavior after another more powerful person.

Ex: Abused child later becomes abuser

Question 12

Intellectualization

Answer 12

Distancing oneself through logic and facts

Question 13

Isolation of affect

Answer 13

Separating feelings from ideas and events

ex: describing a murder in detail with no emotional response

Question 14

Passive Agression

Answer 14

Showing opposition through not meeting expectations

Question 15

Projection

Answer 15

Attributing an unacceptable internal impulse to an external source
Ex: Man who wants to cheat on his wife accuses her of being unfaithful

Question 16

Rationalization

Answer 16

Claiming logical reasons for actions performed for other reasons

Question 17

Regression

Answer 17

Involuntarily returning to less mature state

Question 18

Reaction Formation

Answer 18

Emphasizing the opposite of a repressed idea or feeling

Ex: Lustful person joins monastery

Question 19

Repression

Answer 19

Involuntarily blocking memory from consciousness

Question 20

Splitting

Answer 20

Believing that people are either all good or all bad

Seen in Borderline Personality Disorder

Question 21

Mature Ego defenses

Answer 21

Mature adults wear a SASH
Sublimination
Altruism
Suppression
Humor