Defense Mechanisms and Conflict Resolution
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In the context of neurotic defense mechanisms, what is achieved through undoing in OCD?

  • Magical thinking and rituals (correct)
  • Reduction of anxiety
  • Elimination of aggressive thoughts
  • Increased self-awareness
  • What is the result of identification with the aggressor as a defense mechanism?

  • Decreased anxiety
  • Increased aggression
  • Avoidance of conflict
  • Perpetration of violent acts (correct)
  • How does projection function as a defense mechanism according to the text?

  • Negating impulses symbolically
  • Internalizing unacceptable impulses
  • Accepting threatening realities
  • Attributing one's own feelings to others (correct)
  • Which of the following is NOT a narcissistic defense mechanism mentioned in the text?

    <p>Undoing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What results from denial as a defense mechanism according to the text?

    <p>Explicit refusal to acknowledge reality</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which defense mechanism involves perceiving inner impulses as originating outside the self?

    <p>Projection</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main process associated with identification with the aggressor as a defense mechanism?

    <p>Reducing direct resistance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the conflict associated with narcissistic defense mechanisms?

    <p>'Hostility' or unacceptable wishes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Ideas of reference, prejudice, suspiciousness, injustice' are linked to which defense mechanism?

    <p>'Projection'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defense mechanism is characterized by an individual projecting an aspect of self onto someone else, leading the recipient to identify with it?

    <p>Projective identification</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which defense mechanism involves an individual splitting qualities of an object or person into black and white, with no grey area in between?

    <p>Splitting</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In which defense mechanism does an individual alternate between idealizing and devaluing others, often accompanied by splitting?

    <p>Idealization and denigration</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defense mechanism involves internalizing the qualities of an external 'object' like a mother or friend?

    <p>Introjection</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which defense mechanism is associated with the belief that thoughts can influence the external world, often seen in OCD?

    <p>Omnipotence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In which defense mechanism does an individual convert inferiority feelings into feelings of superiority?

    <p>Grandiosity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the defense mechanism that involves expressing aggression towards authorities indirectly through passive obstructive activities?

    <p>Passive aggression</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Stripping off either all positive or all negative qualities of others' best describes which defense mechanism?

    <p>Idealization and denigration</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In which defense mechanism does an individual attach great value to thoughts and believe they have the power to influence external objects?

    <p>Omnipotence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defense mechanism involves living out unconscious fantasies impulsively to gratify impulses through action?

    <p>Acting out</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which defense mechanism involves moving back into a childish or earlier developmental phase to avoid confronting a conflict?

    <p>Regression</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the tendency to experience bodily sensations as unusually intense or distressing?

    <p>Somatosensory Amplification</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In Freud's topographical theory of the mind, which region processes information from the outside world?

    <p>Conscious system</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which psychoanalytical theory is characterized by primary-process thinking and governed by the pleasure principle?

    <p>Id</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main function of the preconscious system in Freud's topographical theory of the mind?

    <p>Ensuring unconscious desires become conscious</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which defense mechanism involves attributing one's own unacceptable feelings or thoughts onto others?

    <p>Projection</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Repressing unacceptable desires' is a significant function associated with which part of Freud's structural theory of the mind?

    <p>Ego</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What distinguishes the conscious system from the preconscious system in Freud's topographical theory of the mind?

    <p>It communicates via speech and behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In Freud's structural theory of the mind, which component operates primarily based on instinctive drives and is not influenced by external reality?

    <p>Id</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of thinking characterizes the unconscious system in Freud's psychoanalytical theories?

    <p>Primary-process thinking</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the age range for the anal psychosexual stage according to Freud?

    <p>1 ½ to 3 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which component of Freud's structural theory of the mind is primarily responsible for maintaining a sense of reality about the body and the external world?

    <p>Ego</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which anxiety is considered the most mature form of anxiety according to Freud?

    <p>Superego anxiety</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main aim of aggression as per dual instinct theory?

    <p>Destruction</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which stage of development is characterized by oral erotism and later oral sadism?

    <p>Oral stage</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Libido' represents the force by which instinct?

    <p>Eros</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Stranger anxiety' typically occurs at what age range?

    <p>7-9 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Disintegration/annihilation anxiety' is primarily related to concerns about what?

    <p>Fusion with an external object</p> Signup and view all the answers

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