G12 Positive Defense Mechanisms

Having a positive "defense mechanism" creates which of the following?

• disappointment

• opportunity

• pride

• anxiety

Which defense mechanism is used when a person identifies his feeling about a person or an object to another.

• Sublimation

• Rationalization

• Transference

• Introjection

. Which defense mechanism is used when a person pushes disturbing thoughts, wishes, or experience from one's conscious awareness while the feeling continues to operate on an unconscious level?

• Repression

• Rationalization

• Undoing

• Introjection

Which defernse mechanism is used when a person conceals the true motivations for one's thoughts, actions, or feelings by offering reassuring but incorrect explanations?

• Repression

• Rationalization

• Undoing

• Introjection

Which mental state is an exaggerated feeling of self-worth?

• Indifference

• Optimism

• Patience

• Pride

Defense mechanisms can help people feel better about a situation

• True

• False

Who developed a psychoanalytic personality theory which involved the id, ego and superego?

• S. Feind

• S. Frued

• S. Freud

• S. Franc

Defense mechanisms allow a person to resolve conflict and reduce stress and anxiety.

• True

• False

Defense mechanisms mostly function at conscious level.

• True

• False

Defense mechanisms are mostly self-deceptive.

• True

• False