Unit 3 2026/2027 (Answered)
Unit 3
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1. mild anxiety VS normal, aware of surroundings, relaxed
2. moderate anxiety VS normal or slightly elevated, tense or excited, increased focus, attentive, feeling
of readiness and challenge
3. severe anxiety fight or flight response (pupils dilated, VS increased, sweating, diarrhea, dry
mouth), problem solving difficult, feels threatened
4. panic pale, hypotension, problem solving and logical thinking severely impaired, total
loss of control
5. defense mecha- Freud's psychoanalytic strategies that help lessen anxious feelings and negative
nisms emotional states, often used unconsciously when one feels threatened
6. rationalization defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real,
more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions
7. denial psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even to
perceive painful realities
8. projection disguising one's own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
9. regression coping with present conflict or stress by returning to earlier, more secure stage in
life
10. dissociation separation of emotions from situation to remove of painful anxieties from con-
scious awareness
11. compensation attempt to overcome feelings of inferiority or make up for deficiency
12. displacement redirecting of energies to another person or object
13. obsession recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are intrusive or inap-
propriate and cause marked anxiety or distress
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Unit 3
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_fxvwjc
1. mild anxiety VS normal, aware of surroundings, relaxed
2. moderate anxiety VS normal or slightly elevated, tense or excited, increased focus, attentive, feeling
of readiness and challenge
3. severe anxiety fight or flight response (pupils dilated, VS increased, sweating, diarrhea, dry
mouth), problem solving difficult, feels threatened
4. panic pale, hypotension, problem solving and logical thinking severely impaired, total
loss of control
5. defense mecha- Freud's psychoanalytic strategies that help lessen anxious feelings and negative
nisms emotional states, often used unconsciously when one feels threatened
6. rationalization defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real,
more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions
7. denial psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even to
perceive painful realities
8. projection disguising one's own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
9. regression coping with present conflict or stress by returning to earlier, more secure stage in
life
10. dissociation separation of emotions from situation to remove of painful anxieties from con-
scious awareness
11. compensation attempt to overcome feelings of inferiority or make up for deficiency
12. displacement redirecting of energies to another person or object
13. obsession recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are intrusive or inap-
propriate and cause marked anxiety or distress
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