Q3 Defense and Illness Response

Question 1

why do people sometimes not perceive or barely perceive their anxiety

Answer 1

• it cannot be tolerated

Question 2

what component of id/ego/superego are instincts

Answer 2

• id

Question 3

what component of id/ego/superego is reality

Answer 3

• ego

Question 4

what component of id/ego/superego is morality

Answer 4

• superego

Question 5

what are the mature defenses

Answer 5

• sublimation
• altruism
• suppression
• humor

SASH

Question 6

what is the term for expressing unacceptable feelings and thoughts through actions

Answer 6

• acting out

Question 7

what is the term for avoiding the awareness of some painful reality

Answer 7

• denial

Question 8

what is the term for transferring avoided ideas and feelings to a NEUTRAL personal or object

Answer 8

• displacement

Question 9

what is the term for temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress

Answer 9

• dissociation

Question 10

what is the term for partially remaining at a more childish level of development

Answer 10

• fixation

Question 11

what is the term for modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful

Answer 11

• identification

Question 12

what is the term for separating feelings from ideas and events

Answer 12

• isolation of affect

Question 13

what is the term for expressing negativity and performing below what is expected as an indirect show of opposition

Answer 13

• passive aggression

Question 14

what is the term for attribution an unacceptable internal impulse to an external source

Answer 14

• projection

Question 15

what is the term for proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self blame-

Answer 15

• rationalization

Question 16

what is the term for replacing a warded-off idea or feeling by an unconsciousness derived emphasis on its opposite

doing the opposite of what you feel with gusto

Answer 16

• reaction formation

Question 17

what is the term for turning back the maturational clock and going back to earlier mode of dealing with the world

Answer 17

• regression

Question 18

what is the term for involuntarily withholding an idea or feeling from conscious awareness

Answer 18

• repression

Question 19

what is the term for believing that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity

Answer 19

• splitting

Question 20

what is the term for alleviating negative feelings via unsolicited generosity

Answer 20

• altruism

Question 21

what is the term for appreciating the amusing nature of an anxiety-provoking or adverse situation

Answer 21

• humor

Question 22

what is the term for replacing an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar to the wish but does not conflict with one’s value system

Answer 22

• sublimation

Question 23

what is the term for intentionally withholding and idea or feeling from conscious awareness

Answer 23

• suppression

Question 24

what kind of coping response refers to gathering information, making arrangements for care

Answer 24

• problem-focused

Question 25

what kind of coping response refers to seeking emotional support, mental or behavioral disengagement

Answer 25

• emotion-focused

Question 26

what is the term for no overt emotional reaction to illness or diagnosis

what is one reason this may occur

Answer 26

• pseudo-denial

- patients inadequately informed of illness

Question 27

behavioral responses to illness

Answer 27

• epiphany
• becoming an expert
• avoidance