NU665 Final – Questions With Suitable Solutions
Repression Correct Answer - in psychoanalytic theory, the
basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts,
feelings, and memories from consciousness
Denial Correct Answer - psychoanalytic defense mechanism by
which people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities.
Projection Correct Answer - psychoanalytic defense
mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening
impulses by attributing them to others
Rationalization Correct Answer - psychoanalytic defense
mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the
real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions.
Displacement Correct Answer - psychoanalytic defense
mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more
acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting
anger toward a safer outlet
sublimation (defense mechanism) Correct Answer -
channeling socially unacceptable impulses into constructive, even
admirable, behavior
Regression Correct Answer - psychoanalytic defense
mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a
more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy
remains fixated
Intellectualization Defense Mechanism Correct Answer - use of
excessive reasoning or logic to deal with situations rather than
feeling their emotions
, Isolation: Defense Mechanism Correct Answer - - Separate a
thought or memory from the feeling tone or emotion associated
with it.
EX: Without showing any emotion, a young women describes being
attacked and raped.
reaction formation (defense mechanism) Correct Answer - -
Preventing unacceptable thoughts or behaviors from being
expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors.
EX: Jane hates nursing. She attended nursing school to please her
parents. During career day, she speaks to prospective students
about the excellence of nursing as a career.
Compensation : Defense Mechanism Correct Answer - -
Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one
considers more desirable.
EX: A handicapped boy is unable to participate in football, so he
compensates by becoming a great scholar.
Undoing: Defense Mechanism Correct Answer - - Symbolically
negating or canceling out an experience that one finds intolerable.
EX: Joe is nervous about his new job and yells at his wife. On his way
home he stops and buys her flowers.
defense mechanisms Correct Answer - in psychoanalytic
theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by
unconsciously distorting reality
Repression Correct Answer - in psychoanalytic theory, the
basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts,
feelings, and memories from consciousness
Denial Correct Answer - psychoanalytic defense mechanism by
which people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities.
Projection Correct Answer - psychoanalytic defense
mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening
impulses by attributing them to others
Rationalization Correct Answer - psychoanalytic defense
mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the
real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions.
Displacement Correct Answer - psychoanalytic defense
mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more
acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting
anger toward a safer outlet
sublimation (defense mechanism) Correct Answer -
channeling socially unacceptable impulses into constructive, even
admirable, behavior
Regression Correct Answer - psychoanalytic defense
mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a
more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy
remains fixated
Intellectualization Defense Mechanism Correct Answer - use of
excessive reasoning or logic to deal with situations rather than
feeling their emotions
, Isolation: Defense Mechanism Correct Answer - - Separate a
thought or memory from the feeling tone or emotion associated
with it.
EX: Without showing any emotion, a young women describes being
attacked and raped.
reaction formation (defense mechanism) Correct Answer - -
Preventing unacceptable thoughts or behaviors from being
expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors.
EX: Jane hates nursing. She attended nursing school to please her
parents. During career day, she speaks to prospective students
about the excellence of nursing as a career.
Compensation : Defense Mechanism Correct Answer - -
Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one
considers more desirable.
EX: A handicapped boy is unable to participate in football, so he
compensates by becoming a great scholar.
Undoing: Defense Mechanism Correct Answer - - Symbolically
negating or canceling out an experience that one finds intolerable.
EX: Joe is nervous about his new job and yells at his wife. On his way
home he stops and buys her flowers.
defense mechanisms Correct Answer - in psychoanalytic
theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by
unconsciously distorting reality
