FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT DEFENSE

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT DEFENSE

MECHANISM EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -28 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: A primitive defense; inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable.

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Denial Question 2: The person utilized unconscious thoughts of perceiving other's behavior as a reflection of one's own identity

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Projective Identification Question 3: Universal mechanism where a person patterns self after a significant other. Plays a major role in personality development, especially superego development.

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Identification Question 4: Mastering anxiety by identifying w/ powerful aggressor to counteract feelings of helplessness and feel powerful. Usually involves behaving like an aggressor.

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Identification with the aggressor

Question 5: The deterioration of existing defenses.

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De-compensation Question 6: Defense to deflect hostile aggression or other unacceptable impulses from another to self.

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Turning Against Self Question 7: Unattainable or unacceptable goal, emotion, or object is replaced by one more attainable or acceptable.

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Substitution Question 8: Potentially maladaptive feelings or behaviors are diverted into socially acceptable, adaptive channels (i.e., person who has angry feelings channels them into athletics.)

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Sublimation Question 9: Directing an impulse, wish or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation.

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Displacement Question 10: Key mechanism; expressed by deny or forgetting unacceptable ideas, fantasies, affects, or impulses from consciousness.

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Repression Question 11: Person with repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous systems (as pain, deafness, blindness, paralysis, convulsions, tics.)

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Conversion

Question 12: The person frequently used by another person with poor organization where they attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another. It is the split of primitive idealization.

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Devaluation Question 13: Conscious defense of giving believable explanation for irritation behavior; motivated by unacceptable unconscious wishes to cope with uncomfortable feelings.

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Rationalization Question 14: Loved or hated external objects are symbolically absorbed within self

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Introjection Question 15: Individual will make up for real or fancied deficiencies (i.e., a person who stutters become very expressive writer; short man assumes a cocky attitude, etc.)

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Compensation Question 16: Person avoids uncomfortable emotions by focusing on facts. Emotional aspects are completely ignored as being irrelevant. Jargon is often used as a device.

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Intellectualization Question 17: Primitive mechanism in which psychic representation of a person is figuratively ingested.

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Incorporation Question 18: Mechanism when a person perceives self and others as "all good" or "all bad." This serves to protect the good objects, a person cannot integrate the good and bad in people.

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Splitting

Question 19: Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another

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Idealization Question 20: Person adopts affects, ideas, attitudes, or behaviors as their opposites of those they harbor consciously or unconsciously

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Reaction Formation Question 21: A person uses words or actions to reverse or negate unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or actions (i.e., a person washing hands to deal with obsessive thoughts).

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Undoing Question 22: Unacceptable impulses, idea, or act is separated from its original memory source, thereby removing the original emotional charge associated with it.

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Isolation of Affect Question 23: A mental representation stands for some other thing. This mechanism underlies dream formation & some other symptoms with a link between the latent meaning and symbol.

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Symbolization Question 24: Emotional Conflict is deal through actions rather than feelings (i.e., instead of talking about feeling neglected, a person will get into trouble to get attention).

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Acting Out Question 25: Loss of motivation to engage in (usually pleasurable) activity avoided because it might stir up conflict over forbidden impulses.

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Inhibition