Psych Exam 1 UTA part 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Compensation - CORRECT ANSWER - Attempting to make up for or offset deficiencies,
either real or imagined by concentrating or developing other abilities
Conversion - CORRECT ANSWER - Symbolic expression of intrapsychic conflict
expressed in physical symptoms
Denial - CORRECT ANSWER - Blocking out, or disowning painful thoughts or feelings
Displacement - CORRECT ANSWER - Feelings arc transferred, redirected, or discharged
from the appropriate person or object to a less threatening person or object
Dissociation - CORRECT ANSWER - Separating and detaching an idea, situation,
orrelationship from its emotional significance; helps individual put aside painful feelings and
often leads to a temporary alteration of consciousness or identity
Identification - CORRECT ANSWER - Attempting to pattern or resemble the personality
of an admired, idealized person
Introjection - CORRECT ANSWER - Acceptance of another's values and opinions as one's
own
Projection - CORRECT ANSWER - Attributing one's own unacceptable feelings and
thoughts to others
Rationalization - CORRECT ANSWER - Attempting to justify or modify unacceptable
needs and feelings to the ego, in an effort to maintain self-respect and prevent guilt feelings
, Reaction Formation - CORRECT ANSWER - Assuming altitudes and behaviors that one
consciously rejects
Regression - CORRECT ANSWER - Retreating to an earlier, more comfortable level of
adjustment
Regression - CORRECT ANSWER - Retreating to an earlier, more comfortable level of
adjustment
Sublimation - CORRECT ANSWER - Diversion of unacceptable instinctual drives into
personally and socially acceptable areas to help channel forbidden impulses into constructive
activities
Suppression - CORRECT ANSWER - Intentional exclusion of forbidden ideas and anxiety
producing situations from the conscious level; a voluntary forgetting and postponing mechanism
Undoing - CORRECT ANSWER - actually or symbolically attempting to erase a previous
consciously intolerable experience or action; an attempt to repair feelings and actions that have
created guilt and anxiety
Acute dystonia - CORRECT ANSWER - Acute, often painful, sustained contraction of
muscles, usually of the head and neck, which typically occur from 2 to 5 days after the
introduction of antipsychotic medications.
Pseudoparkinsonism - CORRECT ANSWER - A medication-induced temporary
constellation of symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease: tremor, reduced accessory
movements, impaired gait, and stiffening of muscles. (Varcarolis 2010, p. 810)
Tardive dyskinesia - CORRECT ANSWER - A serious and irreversible side effect of the
phenothiazines and related drugs; consists of involuntary tonic muscle spasms typically
involving the tongue, fingers, toes, neck, trunk, or pelvis.
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Compensation - CORRECT ANSWER - Attempting to make up for or offset deficiencies,
either real or imagined by concentrating or developing other abilities
Conversion - CORRECT ANSWER - Symbolic expression of intrapsychic conflict
expressed in physical symptoms
Denial - CORRECT ANSWER - Blocking out, or disowning painful thoughts or feelings
Displacement - CORRECT ANSWER - Feelings arc transferred, redirected, or discharged
from the appropriate person or object to a less threatening person or object
Dissociation - CORRECT ANSWER - Separating and detaching an idea, situation,
orrelationship from its emotional significance; helps individual put aside painful feelings and
often leads to a temporary alteration of consciousness or identity
Identification - CORRECT ANSWER - Attempting to pattern or resemble the personality
of an admired, idealized person
Introjection - CORRECT ANSWER - Acceptance of another's values and opinions as one's
own
Projection - CORRECT ANSWER - Attributing one's own unacceptable feelings and
thoughts to others
Rationalization - CORRECT ANSWER - Attempting to justify or modify unacceptable
needs and feelings to the ego, in an effort to maintain self-respect and prevent guilt feelings
, Reaction Formation - CORRECT ANSWER - Assuming altitudes and behaviors that one
consciously rejects
Regression - CORRECT ANSWER - Retreating to an earlier, more comfortable level of
adjustment
Regression - CORRECT ANSWER - Retreating to an earlier, more comfortable level of
adjustment
Sublimation - CORRECT ANSWER - Diversion of unacceptable instinctual drives into
personally and socially acceptable areas to help channel forbidden impulses into constructive
activities
Suppression - CORRECT ANSWER - Intentional exclusion of forbidden ideas and anxiety
producing situations from the conscious level; a voluntary forgetting and postponing mechanism
Undoing - CORRECT ANSWER - actually or symbolically attempting to erase a previous
consciously intolerable experience or action; an attempt to repair feelings and actions that have
created guilt and anxiety
Acute dystonia - CORRECT ANSWER - Acute, often painful, sustained contraction of
muscles, usually of the head and neck, which typically occur from 2 to 5 days after the
introduction of antipsychotic medications.
Pseudoparkinsonism - CORRECT ANSWER - A medication-induced temporary
constellation of symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease: tremor, reduced accessory
movements, impaired gait, and stiffening of muscles. (Varcarolis 2010, p. 810)
Tardive dyskinesia - CORRECT ANSWER - A serious and irreversible side effect of the
phenothiazines and related drugs; consists of involuntary tonic muscle spasms typically
involving the tongue, fingers, toes, neck, trunk, or pelvis.
