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 (D)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Projection (B)</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 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the conflict associated with narcissistic defense mechanisms?

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

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

<p>'Projection' (B)</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 (C)</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 (B)</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 (B)</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 (A)</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 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Grandiosity (B)</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 (C)</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 (D)</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 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Acting out (C)</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 (D)</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 (C)</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 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Id (C)</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 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Projection (D)</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 (B)</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 (B)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Destruction (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

'Libido' represents the force by which instinct?

<p>Eros (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

'Stranger anxiety' typically occurs at what age range?

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

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

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

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