N450 Exam #3 Mental Health Completely Solved!!

Conversion - ANSWER Putting forth extra effort to achieve in areas where one has real or imagined deficiency. Denial - ANSWER Disowning consciously intolerable thoughts and impulses Displacement - ANSWER Feelings about one person are directed to another who is less threatening, thereby satisfying an impulse with a substitute object Disassociation - ANSWER The blocking off of an anxiety-provoking event or period of time from the conscious mind Fantasy - ANSWER Fixation: Never advancing to the next level of emotional development and organization; the persistence in later life of interests and behavior patterns appropriate to an earlier age Identification - ANSWER The unconscious attempt to change oneself to resemble an admired person