• Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/15

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

15 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back

Psychlogical Defense Mechanisms

Help the ego cope with anxiety, frustration, and unacceptable impulses.


relieve tension between inner psychological reality and the demands of the external world


each person has their own set of psychological defenses that make up their personality.

Primative Defense mechanisms

Denial, Reaction formation, and projection because they are more out of touch with reality

Higher level of functioning defense mechanisms

Sublimation, undoing, rationalization, displacement, identification, and intellectualization

Rationalization

plausible reasons justify an action or opinion


helps cope with disappointments by blaming external circumstances

Repression

refuses to let into awareness unacceptable impulses but remains unconsciously operative in behavior

Displacement

affect in transferred from object to another

Identification

process by which qualities of external object are absorbed into one's personality

Intellectulization

process by which content is separated from repressed affect

Asceticism

characterized by rigor or self-denial

Reaction Formation

process by which unacceptable impulses are expressed as their opposites


helps relieves anxiety and guilt associated with the true impulse

Introjection and Internalization

the internalization of outside events or characteristics of other people

Projection

places unacceptable feelings from the person's feelings them onto another person

Denial

distorts reality and does not acknowledge emotion


Sublimation

a person's sublimation will displace unacceptable instincts

Undoing

process by which we avid being punishes for undesirable thoughts or actions