Adjustments

Question 1

• a process where the internal demands of motivations are brought into harmonious relation with the external
  demands of reality

Answer 1

Adjustment

Question 2

People use protective barriers and defense mechanisms against factors that threaten ego security because insecurity is psychologically intolerable

Answer 2

DEFENSE MECHANISMS

Question 3

________- involves the inventing of excuses or reasons for behavior that is inadequate, unacceptable, or damaging to personal integrity and status; it operates unconsciously and protects self-esteem without guilty feelings.

Answer 3

Rationalization

Question 4

__________- a form of rationalization; a process of shifting the responsibility for an act or thought from oneself to an
outside object or to another person.

Answer 4

Projection

Question 5

_________- a type of projection, which is the process of shifting a response or reaction from its original object to
another which is less dangerous.

Answer 5

Displacement

Question 6

_________- is an unconscious process wherein shameful thoughts, guilt-producing memories, painful experiences, or
distasteful tasks are removed from awareness or forced below the level of consciousness.

Answer 6

Repression

Question 7

___________ - is the deliberate, conscious control of unacceptable or undesirable thoughts or impulses; the same
purpose as repression but it involves conscious intent.

Answer 7

Suppression

Question 8

__________- is the unconscious pretension to superior qualities and traits that serve to obscure the existence of a
basic inferiority.

Answer 8

Egocentrism

Question 9

__________- is a device which makes it possible to discharge tensions by diverting one’s energies from a desired goal
to substitute one; this sometimes called transferred compensation.

Answer 9

Substitution

Question 10

_________- the mechanism where the individual devotes time and effort to a pursuit with increased vigor
in an attempt to make up for real or imagined inadequacy.

Answer 10

Compensation

Question 11

a) ______ Compensation - refers to the generation of an intense desire to succeed in an area in which one has experienced failure or inferiority.
b) ________ Compensation - is the effort to find success in one field when there has been failure in another.

Answer 11

Direct
Indirect

Question 12

______________- is the concentration of efforts on a narrow field at the expense of a well-rounded and
complete adjustment to a variety of life’s demands.

Answer 12

Overcompensation

Question 13

__________- is the unconscious redirection of the primitive energies natural impulses to socially and morally
acceptable channels of activity.

Answer 13

Sublimation

Question 14

___________ - urges that are not acceptable to the consciousness are repressed, and opposite attitudes or
modes of behavior are expressed with considerable force.

Answer 14

Reaction Formation

Question 15

__________ - is a way of adjusting to a threatening situation by escaping from it; it enables the person to
get away from the scene of the conflict.

Answer 15

Avoidance Mechanism

Question 16

The mechanisms commonly used to avoid or escape strife and threats are:
1. F__t_sy - a mental mechanism where a person substitutes real satisfactions for imaginary satisfactions.
2. Re_____ion - a process of relieving anxiety or threat by falling back on thoughts, feelings, or behavior, which worked
successfully during the earlier period of life.
3. Motor H__te_ia - is the development of real physical symptoms which enable a person to withdraw from a difficult
situation; mental conflict is converted into physical symptom.
4. Neg__iv__m - is the refusal to participate in a tense situation; this is a type of avoidance-mechanism manifested through
either an active or passive resistance towards the external demands on the individual.
5. I__nti___ation - is the mechanism where the individual enhances self-esteem by patterning him/herself after another
person; this is the process of attaining success through the accomplishments of an external agents.
6. Fix___on - is a premature termination of some aspect of personality development or a delay in maturation.

Answer 16

Fantasy
Regression
Motor Hysteria
Negativism
Identification
Fixation

Question 17

ADJUSTMENT OF EXCEPTIONAL CASES
_e__al R_ta__ati_n - is caused by varying circumstances, most frequently due to hereditary factors and glandular
deficiencies.

Answer 17

Mental Retardation

Question 18

__f_ed Individuals - display unusual ability in a particular area, such as in music, art and other creative abilities.

Answer 18

Gifted Individuals

Question 19

P__sica___ Hand_c__ped - maladjustment may occur because of physical handicap

Answer 19

Physically Handicapped

Question 20

FACTORS THAT CAUSE MENTAL SUPERIORITY
T/F
Heredity and environment are the major factors that cause mental superiority in a child. Many mentally superior
children come from homes with professional parents.

Answer 20

T

Question 21

Superior children need to adjust to overcome difficulties in dealing with other average persons. Dena Hollingsworth
lists problems superior children are likely to face:
1. Problem at ___rk
2. Adjustment toward cl__sma_es
3. Problem of play and in___e_t
4. Problem of con___mit_
5. Problem of origin and d_s___y

Answer 21

work
Adjustment
interest
conformity
destiny