Psychosocial midterm Flashcards
Denial
Refusing to believe something that causes anxiety
Projection
Believing that an unacceptable feeling of one’s own belong to someone else
Rationalization
Making excuses for unacceptable behavior or feelings
Conversion
Conflicts turned into real physical symptoms
Regression
Functioning at a more primitive developmental level than previously, going back to an immature pattern or behavior
Undoing
Trying to reverse the effects of what one has done by doing the opposite
Idealization
Overestimating someone or valuing him or her more than the real personality and person seem to merit
Identification
Adopting the habits of characteristics of another person
Sublimation
Unacceptable wishes channeled into socially acceptable activities
Substitution
A realistic goal or object substituted for one that cannot be achieved.
Compensation
Efforts to make up for personal deficits; this can also be a conscious effort
Denial example
A mother plans for her child who has an intellectual disability to be doctor
Projection example
A self-isolating patient in a work group says that other patients won’t talk to him.
Rationalization example
A teenager says he didn’t do his homework because he didn’t have the right kind of paper.
Conversion example
A girl with poor coordination gets a migraine headache when it is time for volleyball.
Regression example
A 7 year old child who is hospitalized for major surgery begins to walk on tiptoes and suck his thumb.
Undoing example
A patient accuses the therapist of trying to run his life. Later he brings her flowers.
Idealization example
A woman says that the group leader is the most handsome and kindest man in the world.
Identification example
A teenage girl begins to wear her hair just like her therapist does.
Sublimation example
A child who wants to cut things up to see how they work grows up to her a surgeon.
Substitution example
A young man fails the examination for the police department, and then takes a job as a security guard.
Compensation example
A women blind from birth, learns to travel without a can or any other aid.
Id
the part of the personality that contains the drives to self-preservation
object
Anything towards which the id directs its energies to satisfy a drive. Objects may be human or nonhuman