T1-Ego Defenses

Question 1

What are ego defenses?

Answer 1

Normal responses to anxiety and to serve to reduce anxiety

Question 2

When do ego defenses become problematic?

Answer 2

If over used and become a way to avoid reality or interfere with ADL or health needs (refusing to take meds)

Question 3

How do ego defenses operate?

Answer 3

Consciously or unconsciously

Question 4

Are ego defenses the same thing as coping mechanisms?

Answer 4

No

Question 5

Dealing with anxiety by reaching out to others

Answer 5

Altruism

Question 6

Dealing with unacceptable feelings/impulses by unconsciously substituting acceptable forms of expression

Answer 6

Sublimation

Question 7

Voluntarily denying unpleasant though and feelings

Answer 7

Suppression

Question 8

Putting unacceptable ideas, shouts, and emotions of of conscious unawareness

Answer 8

RePRESSion

Question 9

Shifting feelings r/t an object, person, or situation to another less threatening, object, person, or situation

Answer 9

Displacement

Question 10

Overcompensating or demonstrating the opposite behavior of what is felt

Answer 10

Reaction formation

Question 11

Performing an act to make up for prior behavior

Answer 11

Undoing

Question 12

Creating reasonable and acceptable explanations for unacceptable behavior

Answer 12

Rationalization

Question 13

Temporarily blocking memories and perceptions from consciousness

Answer 13

Dissociation

Question 14

Demonstrating an inability to reconcile negative and positive attributes of self or others

Answer 14

Splitting

Question 15

Blaming others for unacceptable thoughts and feelings

Answer 15

Projection

Question 16

Pretending the trust is not reality to manage anxiety

Answer 16

Denial

Question 17

Demonstration behavior from an earlier developmental level

Answer 17

ReGRESSion

Question 18

Young adult blames his substance abuse on his parents’ refusal to buy him a new car

Answer 18

Projection

Question 19

Nurse who lost a family member to a fire is a volunteer firefighter

Answer 19

Altruism

Question 20

Client tells nurse that she is the only one who cares about her, yet the following day, the same client refuses to talk to the nurse

Answer 20

Splitting

Question 21

An adolescent witnesses a shooting and is unable to recall any details of the event

Answer 21

Dissociation

Question 22

Person who has feelings of anger and hostility toward his work supervisor sublimes those feeling by workout out vigorously at the gym during his lunch period

Answer 22

Sublimation

Question 23

A person who has lost his job states he will worry about paying his bills next week

Answer 23

Suppression

Question 24

Young adult explains he had to drive home from a party after drinking ETOH bc he had to feed his dog

Answer 24

Rationalization

Question 25

Person who has a fear of the dentist’s drill continually “forgets” his dental appointments

Answer 25

RePRESSion

Question 26

School age child begins wetting the bed and sucking his thumb after learning that his parents are separating

Answer 26

ReGRESSion

Question 27

Parent who is informed that his son was killed in combat tells everyone he is coming home for the holidays

Answer 27

Denial

Question 28

Angry at the boss–goes home and kicks the dog

Answer 28

Displacement

Question 29

A person who dislikes her sister’s daughter offers to babysit so that her sister can go out of town

Answer 29

Reaction formation

Question 30

An adolescent competes his chores without being prompted after having an argument with his parents

Answer 30

Undoing