Chapter 11 (E1)

Question 1

What is a healthy defense that is socially acceptable activity for strong impulses that are not usually considered acceptable?

Answer 1

Sublimation

Question 2

What is a conscious denial of a disturbing situation of feeling?

Answer 2

Suppression

Question 3

What is the exclusion of unpleasant or unwanted experiences emotions or ideas from conscious awareness?

Answer 3

Repression

Question 4

A transfer of emotions associated with a specific person object or situation to another person object or situation that is non-threatening is called what?

Answer 4

 Displacement

Question 5

What is the term of performing an action to make up for previous behavior?

Answer 5

undoing

Question 6

What consist of justifying illogical or unreasonable ideas, actions, or feelings by developing acceptable explanations for the behavior?
Example : “ everybody cheats, so why shouldn’t I?”

Answer 6

Rationalization

Question 7

A term for disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment is called what?

Answer 7

Dissociation

Question 8

This term is the hallmark of blaming scapegoating, prejudicial thinking, and stigmatism?

Answer 8

Projection

Question 9

What examines how negative thoughts or cognitive distortions contribute to anxiety and examines how individuals behave and react in situations that trigger anxiety?

Answer 9

Cognitive behavioral therapy or psychotherapy

Question 10

What type of technique involves gradually exposing a person to a feared, object or situation, until the person is free of incapacitating anxiety

Answer 10

Systematic desensitization