Psychology Quiz: Defense Mechanisms and Abnormal Psychology

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What defense mechanism is Karen using when she tells her parents she failed her midterm due to being sick and not getting enough sleep?

Projection

Repression

Rationalization (correct)

Denial

Which defense mechanism is Tony using when he thinks he doesn't have a problem with excessive drinking?

Denial (correct)

Rationalization

Repression

Projection

What is the term for recurrent, persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that cannot be eliminated from consciousness by logic?

Obsession (correct)

Preoccupation

Suicide

Somitic delusional

What defense mechanism is the woman using when she is unable to enjoy sex after being pushed out of awareness of a traumatic experience?

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What defense mechanism is Bill using when he acts like he doesn’t know what his friends are talking about and denies the whole thing?

Denial Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the process of providing a patient with the information, support, and feedback needed to make a decision?

Advocacy Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the oscillation of a person's emotional feeling tone between periods of elation and periods of depression or another mood state?

Mood swing Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the feeling of familiarity with a situation that one has never experienced before?

De ja vu Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the rapid jumping from one idea to another during a conversation?

Flight of ideas Signup and view all the answers

What is the contraindication of ECT?

Fever Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the transfer of an emotion associated with a particular person, object, or situation to another person, object, or situation that is non-threatening?

Displacement Signup and view all the answers

Psychology Quiz: Defense Mechanisms and Abnormal Psychology

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What defense mechanism is Karen using when she tells her parents she failed her midterm due to being sick and not getting enough sleep?

Which defense mechanism is Tony using when he thinks he doesn't have a problem with excessive drinking?

What is the term for recurrent, persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that cannot be eliminated from consciousness by logic?

What defense mechanism is the woman using when she is unable to enjoy sex after being pushed out of awareness of a traumatic experience?

What defense mechanism is Bill using when he acts like he doesn’t know what his friends are talking about and denies the whole thing?

What is the term for the process of providing a patient with the information, support, and feedback needed to make a decision?

What is the term for the oscillation of a person's emotional feeling tone between periods of elation and periods of depression or another mood state?

What is the term for the feeling of familiarity with a situation that one has never experienced before?

What is the term for the rapid jumping from one idea to another during a conversation?

What is the contraindication of ECT?

What is the term for the transfer of an emotion associated with a particular person, object, or situation to another person, object, or situation that is non-threatening?

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