5 Written Questions

1. Imagined events or mental images to express unconcious conflicts, gratify unconcious wishes, or prepare for anticipated future events.( if a girls sits in a chair pretenting as if she has a baby while rocking in a chair holding a baby doll.)
2. Dealing with anxiety while reaching out to others(nurse who lost a family member in a fire is a colunteer firefighter)
3. the acto of "making up" for a real or imagined inability or deficiency with a specific behavior to maintain self respect or self-esteem. (unattractive man who buys expensive clothes for attention)
4. Attributing to oneself the good qualities of another,symbolically taking on the charachter trait of another person by "ingesting" the philosophy,ideas, knowledge, customs,morals or attitudes of that person.(a person who calls himself moses, grows a beard,sandals and reads the bible daily)
5. The unconcious act of replacing a goal when it is blocked. Also defined as the replacement of conciously unacceptable emotions,drives,attitudes or needs by those that are more acceptable. this is used to reduce frustration and promote feelings of satisfaction or success. (a student nurse who feels unable to master the clinical portion opts to be a respritory technician)

5 Matching Questions

1. Displacement
2. Isolation also called emotional isolation
3. Devaluation
4. Dissociation
5. Identification (also called the imitator)

1. a Unconciously, people use it in an attempt to identify with the personality and traits of another.such behaivor perserves ones ego or self, the organized concious mediator between person and reality.(a man dresses, walks and talks like elvis or someone else)
2. b expresses negative thoughts of self or others(a person who is passed up for a promotions states that the job is not better than the one that he has now)
3. c The act of seperation and detaching a strong emotionallly charged conflict from ones conciousness. This detached info is blocked from concious awareness,which allows the person to defer or postpone experiencing an emotional impact.(a raped woman found wadering in the road,when examined she exibited symptoms of traumatic amnesia.)
4. d The process of seperating an unacceptable feeling, idea or impulse from ones thoughts(oncologist who is able to care for a terminally ill cancer patient by seperating or isolating feelings of emotional reaction to the patients inevitable death)
5. e a mechanism that serves to transfer feelings such as frustration, hostility or anxiety from one idea, person, or object to another.(yelling at one person when you are mad at another)

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Willfully or volintarily putting unacceptable thought for feeling out of ones mind with the ability to recall the thought or feeling at will.A deliberate,intentional,exclusion feom the concious mind is referred to as voluntary forgetting. This mechanism is generally used to protect ones self esteem.(I'd rather not talk about it right now)
   1. Repression
   2. Conversion
   3. Supression
   4. Regression
2. The rechanneling of the conciously intolerable or social unacceptable impulses or behaviors into activities that are personally or socially acceptable.(An aggressive person volunteers to head the united fund drive in the community)
   1. substitution
   2. Dissociation
   3. Sublimination
   4. Symbolization
3. The most common ego defense mechanism,reffered to as self deception at its subtle best.rationalization is used to unconciously justify ideas,actions,or feelings with good,acceptable reasons or explanations.generally it is used to maintain self respect,prevent guilt feelings,and obtain social approval or acceptance.(a teenage girl who is not invited to prom tells her friend johnny really wanted to take me but he felt sorry for susie and took her)
   1. Dissociation
   2. Symbolization
   3. Idealization
   4. Rationalization
4. the unconcious refusal to face thoughts,feelings,wishes,needs or reality by refusing to aknowledge its existance.(a man who is told that he has terminal cancer but he tells his family that it was a small tumor and his doctor removed it all)
   1. Projection
   2. Altruism
   3. Denial
   4. Fantasy
5. One of the most common defense mechanisms,refered to as "burrying alive" the person is unable to recall painful or unpleasant thoughts or feelings because they are automatically and involuntarily pushed into ones unconcious. (a woman has a terrible fight with her husband and 1 wk later is unable to remember the reason)
   1. Supression
   2. Conversion
   3. Regression
   4. Repression

5 True/False Questions

1. reaction formation also reffered to overcompensation → The process of seperating an unacceptable feeling, idea or impulse from ones thoughts(oncologist who is able to care for a terminally ill cancer patient by seperating or isolating feelings of emotional reaction to the patients inevitable death)

   True        False

2. acting out behaviors → managing emotional conflicts through actions, rather than self reflection. (a preschool child is told to share her toys so she throws them across the room)

   True        False

3. Undoing(restitution) → the negative of a previous conciously intolerable action or experience to reduce or alleviate feelings of guilt. (a man sends his wife flowers after embarrising her at a cocktail party)

   True        False

4. Projection → Attributing to oneself the good qualities of another,symbolically taking on the charachter trait of another person by "ingesting" the philosophy,ideas, knowledge, customs,morals or attitudes of that person.(a person who calls himself moses, grows a beard,sandals and reads the bible daily)

   True        False

5. Idealization → expressing extremely positive thoughts of self or others(a school aged boy boasts about his brother and his accomplishments)

   True        False