CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY - GEN. PSYCH. - DEWITT - EXAM
6 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
Personality Ans✓✓✓A person's characteristic pattern of thinking,
feelings, and acting
Psychodynamic Theory Ans✓✓✓Views personality as an interaction
between conscious and unconscious mind, stressing the importance of
motives and conflict
Id, ego, superego Ans✓✓✓Freud's idea of the mind's structure includes
the __________, __________, and __________.
Defense Mechanisms Ans✓✓✓Protective method of reducing anxiety
by unconsciously distorting reality
Unconscious, protects from painful emotions, self-deceptive, used by
everyone Ans✓✓✓What are the characteristics of defense mechanisms?
Repression Ans✓✓✓Banishment of anxiety-provoking thoughts,
feelings, and memoires
Projection Ans✓✓✓Attributing one's own impulses to someone else
, Isolation Ans✓✓✓Unacceptable emotions are set apart from conscious
awareness
Rationalization Ans✓✓✓Justifying unacceptable behaviors
Displacement Ans✓✓✓Shifting an emotion to a more acceptabel object
or perso
Regression Ans✓✓✓Returning to an earlier stage of maturity
Undoing Ans✓✓✓Carrying on as if no mistake occurred
Compensation Ans✓✓✓Attempt to make up for deficiencies
Denial Ans✓✓✓Ignoring the existence of a painful reality
Identification Ans✓✓✓Modeling values and beliefs of another to the
extreme
Aware of, do away with Ans✓✓✓As one grows toward Christ-like
maturity, Christians should strive to become ___________ __________
and gradually __________ _________ __________ defense
mechanisms.
6 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
Personality Ans✓✓✓A person's characteristic pattern of thinking,
feelings, and acting
Psychodynamic Theory Ans✓✓✓Views personality as an interaction
between conscious and unconscious mind, stressing the importance of
motives and conflict
Id, ego, superego Ans✓✓✓Freud's idea of the mind's structure includes
the __________, __________, and __________.
Defense Mechanisms Ans✓✓✓Protective method of reducing anxiety
by unconsciously distorting reality
Unconscious, protects from painful emotions, self-deceptive, used by
everyone Ans✓✓✓What are the characteristics of defense mechanisms?
Repression Ans✓✓✓Banishment of anxiety-provoking thoughts,
feelings, and memoires
Projection Ans✓✓✓Attributing one's own impulses to someone else
, Isolation Ans✓✓✓Unacceptable emotions are set apart from conscious
awareness
Rationalization Ans✓✓✓Justifying unacceptable behaviors
Displacement Ans✓✓✓Shifting an emotion to a more acceptabel object
or perso
Regression Ans✓✓✓Returning to an earlier stage of maturity
Undoing Ans✓✓✓Carrying on as if no mistake occurred
Compensation Ans✓✓✓Attempt to make up for deficiencies
Denial Ans✓✓✓Ignoring the existence of a painful reality
Identification Ans✓✓✓Modeling values and beliefs of another to the
extreme
Aware of, do away with Ans✓✓✓As one grows toward Christ-like
maturity, Christians should strive to become ___________ __________
and gradually __________ _________ __________ defense
mechanisms.
