Practice Test Defense Mechanism

Practice Test Defense Mechanism
Match Column B with Column A and write your Answer after the number.
COLUMN A COLUMN B
Defense Mechanism Definition
1. Compensation A. Accepting another patient’s attitudes, beliefs, and values as one’s
2. Conversion own
3. Denial B. Acting the opposite of what one thinks or feels
4. Displacement C. Conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts and feelings from
5. Dissociation conscious awareness
6. Fixation D. Dealing with emotional conflict by a temporary alteration in
7. Identification consciousness or identity
8. Intellectualization E. Excluding emotionally painful or anxiety-provoking thoughts and
9. Introjection feelings from conscious awareness
10. Projection F. Excusing own behavior to avoid guilt, responsibility, conflict,
11. Rationalization anxiety, or loss of self-respect
12. Reaction formation G. Exhibiting acceptable behavior to make up for or negate
13. Regression unacceptable behavior
14. Repression H. Expression of an emotional conflict through the development of
15. Resistance a physical symptom, usually sensorimotor in nature
16. Sublimation I. Failure to acknowledge an unbearable condition; failure to admit
17. Substitution the reality of a situation or how one enables the problem to
18. Suppression continue
19. Undoing J. Immobilization of a portion of the Personality resulting from
unsuccessful completion of tasks in a developmental stage
K. Modeling actions and opinions of influential others while
searching for identity, or aspiring to reach a personal, social, or
occupational goal
L. Moving back to a previous developmental stage to feel safe or
have needs met
M. Overachievement in one area to offset real or perceived
deficiencies in another area
N. Overt or covert antagonism toward remembering or processing
anxiety-producing information
O. Replacing the desired gratification with one that is more readily
available
P. Separation of the emotions of a painful event or situation from
the facts involved, acknowledging the facts but not the emotions
Q. Substituting a socially acceptable activity for an impulse that is
unacceptable
R. Unconscious blaming of unacceptable inclinations or thoughts on
an external object
S. Ventilation of intense feelings toward persons less threatening
than the one who aroused those feelings
Match Column A with Column B and write your Answer after the number
COLUMN A COLUMN B
Defense Mechanism Example
A. Compensation 1. Napoleon complex: diminutive man becoming emperor
B. Conversion 2. Nurse with low self-esteem working double shifts so her supervisor
C. Denial will like her
D. Displacement 3. Teenager forbidden to see X-rated movies is tempted to do so by
E. Dissociation friends and develops blindness, and the teenager is unconcerned
F. Fixation about the loss of sight.
G. Identification 4. Diabetic person eating chocolate candy
H. Intellectualization 5. Spending money freely when broke
I. Introjection 6. Waiting 3 days to seek help for severe abdominal pain
J. Projection 7. Person who is mad at the boss yells at his or her spouse.
K. Rationalization 8. Child who is harassed by a bully at school mistreats a younger sibling.
9. Amnesia that prevents recall of yesterday’s auto accident
L. Reaction
10. Adult remembers nothing of childhood sexual abuse.
formation
11. Never learning to delay gratification
M. Regression
12. Lack of a clear sense of identity as an adult
N. Repression
13. Nursing student becoming a critical care nurse because this is the
O. Resistance
specialty of an instructor she admires
P. Sublimation
14. Person shows no emotional expression when discussing serious car
Q. Substitution accident.
R. Suppression 15. Person who dislikes guns becomes an avid hunter, just like a best
S. Undoing friend.
16. Man who has thought about same-gender sexual relationship, but
never had one, beats a man who is gay.
17. Person with many prejudices loudly identifies others as bigots.
18. Student blames failure on teacher being mean.
19. Man says he beats his wife because she doesn’t listen to him.
20. Woman who never wanted to have children becomes a supermom.
21. Person who despises the boss tells everyone what a great boss she is.
22. A 5-year-old asks for a bottle when new baby brother is being fed.
23. Man pouts like a 4-year-old if he is not the center of his girlfriend’s
attention.
24. Woman has no memory of the mugging she suffered yesterday.
25. Woman has no memory before age 7, when she was removed from
abusive parents.
26. Nurse is too busy with tasks to spend time talking to a dying patient.
27. Person attends court-ordered treatment for alcoholism but refuses to
participate.
28. Person who has quit smoking sucks on hard candy when the urge to
smoke arises.
29. Person goes for a 15-minute walk when tempted to eat junk food.
30. Woman who would like to have her own children opens a day care
center.
31. Student decides not to think about a parent’s illness to study for a test.
32. Woman tells a friend she cannot think about her son’s death right
now.
33. Person who cheats on a spouse brings the spouse a bouquet of roses.
34. Man who is ruthless in business donates large amounts of money to
charity

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