Behavioral Science Block 1 Definitions

Front 1

A mature definse mechanism where a person reroutes a trajedy into an acceptable form (i.e. MADD speakers)

Back 1

Sublimation

Front 2

An immature defense mechanism where the person attributes one's own unacceptable feelings to others (a man who desires his brother's wife, believes his own wife is cheating)

Back 2

Projection

Front 3

An immature defense mechanism where the person believes people or events are either all bad or all good because of intolerance of ambiguity.

Back 3

Splitting

Front 4

An immature defense mechanism where the person expresses childlike patterns of behavior during stressful situations.

Back 4

Regression

Front 5

An immature defense mechanism where there is separation of function of mental processes (abused child has two personalities).

Back 5

Dissociation

Front 6

Refusing to acknowledge problems/unacceptable feelings (sometimes with drug abuse)

Back 6

Denial

Front 7

rerouting intense anger to something lesser (losing a job ---> getting mad at the wife)

Back 7

Displacement

Front 8

Patterning behavior after someone that is powerful (after a father who abused the patient).

Back 8

Identification

Front 9

Not a bad form of defense, where a person uses the mind's higher funtions to distract from uncomfortable emotions.

Back 9

Intellectualization

Front 10

Not reacting to stressful events while understanding.

Back 10

Isolation of Affect (***remember for exam***) See in OCD and OCPD.

Front 11

Giving a reasonable explanation

Back 11

Rationalization

Front 12

Denying unacceptable feelings, adopting opposite attitudes (getting angry with someone you are attracted to).

Back 12

Reaction Formation

Front 13

Converting an unacceptable impulse or feeling into a physical symptom

Back 13

Somatization

Front 14

Erasing an unacceptable event from the past by adopting acceptable behavior in the present (superstition, OCD washing hands)

Back 14

Undoing