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defense mechanism - ✔✔serve to protect the ego and to reduce angst, fear, and distress
through irrational distortion, denial, and/or obscuring reality
defense mechanism-rationalization - ✔✔involves the use of distorted, faulty, or incomplete
logic to justify a desired outcome, impulse, or action
defense mechanism-reaction formation - ✔✔overcompensating for unacceptable impulses
defense mechanism-regression - ✔✔...
defense mechanism-repression - ✔✔...
defense mechanism-resistance - ✔✔evident as a deep seated opposition to allowing any
defense mechanism-somatization - ✔✔the emergence or production of physical symptoms
from emotional distress or anxiety
defense mechanism-identification - ✔✔is seen when someone unconsciously models the
desirable behaviors, beliefs, and/or roles of another
defense mechanism-introjection - ✔✔involves identification to the extent that one fully
internalizes the idea, behaviors, or attributes of another person or object.
defense mechanism-inversion - ✔✔occurs when emotions such as aggression that arise from
an external source are turned inward toward oneself
, defense mechanism-isolation - ✔✔splitting away the emotions normally accompanying a
though or experience. (e.g., when a bank teller remains calm during a robbery but is tearful and
tremulous afterwards
defense mechanism-intellectualization - ✔✔a cognitive focus to the exclusion of emotions in
order to cope with potential overwhelming circumstances. (e.g., focusing on the process of
treatment rather than the import of receiving a life threatening diagnosis
defense mechanism-projection - ✔✔refers to the assignment of one's undesired impulses to
another (e.g., an angry person accuses another of hostility)
Name the four motivational forces of the unconscious mind that shape behavior. - ✔✔1.
covert "desires"
2. "defenses" needed to protect, facilitate, and moderate behaviors
3. "dreams"
4. unconscious "wishes"
Identify the three levels of the mind as Freud proposed them. - ✔✔1. The conscious mind,
comprising various ideas and thoughts of which we are fully aware
2. The preconscious mind, comprising ideas and thoughts outside of the immediate awareness
but which can be readily accessed and brought into awareness
3. The unconscious mind, comprising thoughts and ideas outside of our awareness and which
cannot be accessed or brought into full awareness by personal effort alone.
Summarize Freud's structural theory of personality development. - ✔✔the id, the ego, and
the super ego.
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