Defense Mechanisms

Soldiers exposed to traumatic experiences in concentration camps during wartime sometimes had amnesia and were unable to recall any part of their ordeal.

• Regression
• Rationalization
• Intellectualization
• Repression

 Regina, an aggressive child, had problems in elementary school, as she would frequently fight with other children. Regina found when she entered high school that she could channel this hostility into sports such as lacrosse and soccer.

• projection
• sublimation
• repression
• regression

Lucas really hates his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, but when he sees him at the basketball court he pretends they are bros. 

• reaction formation
• denial
• displacement
• projection

Read the following description and select the defense mechanism it describes:

When you use this defense mechanism, you may kick your dog because you are angry at your parents. 

• Projection
• Repression
• Displacement
• Rationalization

Read the following description and select the defense mechanism it describes:

When you use this defense mechanism, you might not admit to yourself that you are failing a class even though your last three tests were “F’s”.  

• Projection
• Denial
• Displacement
• Rationalization

According to Freud, the part of the personality that operates on the "reality principle," working to make decisions that satisfy our desires in acceptable ways:

• id
• ego
• superego

Our personality structure that represents:
-internalized parent
-strives for perfection
-seeks to do what is right & good
Describes:

• Id
• Superego
• Ego
• Eggos

Habitual drinkers may say they drink with friends "just to be social"

• Denial
• Identification
• Rationalization
• Reaction formation

When 2-year old Matthew was told he would get no dessert until he finished the food on his plate, he threw his plate on the floor in a temper tantrum. Freud would have suggested that Matthew was unable to resist the demands of his

• id.

• ego.

• superego.

Id is to ego as __________ is to ______________.

• pleasure principle; reality principle
• reality principle; morality principle
• pleasure principle; morality principle
• Identification; Oedipus Complex