Unit 1: Defense Mechanism

Question 1

Defense Mechanisms

Answer 1

Behaviors that protect people from anxiety.

Question 2

Defense Mechanism:

Acting out

Answer 2

Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings. (Instead ir talking about feeling neglected, a person will act out to get attention)

Question 3

Defense Mechanism:

Conversion

Answer 3

Repressed urge is disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (pain, deafness, blindness, paralysis, convulsion, tics).

Question 4

Defense Mechanism:

Decompensation

Answer 4

Deterioration of existing defenses.

Question 5

Defense Mechanism:

Devaluation

Answer 5

Person attributed exaggerated negative qualities to self or another. Split of primitive idealization.

Question 6

Defense Mechanism:

Dissociation

Answer 6

A process that enables a person to split mental functions in a manner that allows him or her to express forbidden or unconscious impulses w/out taking responsibility for the action (unable to remember)

Question 7

Defense Mechanism:

Displacement

Answer 7

Directing an impulse toward a person that is not its real object, permitting expression in a less threatening situation. (Man angry at his

Question 8

Defense Mechanism:

Identification

Answer 8

Person patterns themself after a significant other.

Question 9

Defense Mechanism:

Incorporation

Answer 9

Primitive mechanism in which psychic representation of a person is figuratively ingested.

Question 10

Defense Mechanism:

Introjection

Answer 10

Loved or hated external objects are symbolically absorbed within self.

Question 11

Defense Mechanism:

Intellectualization

Answer 11

Person avoids uncomfortable emotions by focusing of facts and logic.

Question 12

Defense Mechanism:

Projection

Answer 12

Primitive defense; attribute one’s disowned attitudes, etc to some external object or person.

Question 13

Defense Mechanism:

Projective Identification

Answer 13

Unconsciously perceiving others’ behavior as a reflection of one’s own identity.

Question 14

Defense Mechanism:

Reaction Formation

Answer 14

Person adopts affects, ideas, attitudes, or behaviors that are opposites of those they harbor consciously/unconsciously.

Question 15

Defense Mechanism:

Splitting

Answer 15

Person perceives self and others as “all good” or “all bad.” Protect the good objects. Person cannot intégrate good and bad in people.

Question 16

Defense Mechanism:

Sublimation

Answer 16

Potentially maladaptive feelings or behaviors are diverted into socially acceptable, adaptive channels (person who has angry feelings channels them into athletics).

Question 17

Defense Mechanism:

Substitution

Answer 17

Unattainable or unacceptable goal, emotion, or object is replaced by one more attainable or acceptable.

Question 18

Defense Mechanism:

Turning against self

Answer 18

Deflect hostile aggression or other unacceptable impulses from another to self.

Question 19

Defense Mechanism:

Undoing

Answer 19

Using words or actions to symbolically reverse or negate unacceptable thoughts (washing hands to deal with obsessive thoughts).