NUSC 3P14 Anxiety Defense
Mechanisms Maladapitve And
Adaptive Study Set Exam
Altruism - Answer dedicating oneself to meeting the needs of others as a means of
diffusing potentially anxious situations.
compensation - Answer used to make up for perceived deficiencies and to cover up
shortcomings related to these deficiencies to protect the conscious mind from
recognizing them.
Compensation: Adaptive Use - Answer A shorter-than-average person becomes
assertively verbal and excels in business.
Altruism: Adaptive Use - Answer A person who is worried that their boss is angry at
them will go out of his way and try to be helpful.
compensation: Maladaptive Use - Answer An individual drinks alcohol when self-esteem
is low to temporarily diffuse discomfort.
Altruism: Maladaptive Use - Answer The use of altruism is always constructive.
Conversion: Adaptive use - Answer A student is unable to take a final examination
because of a terrible headache.
Conversion: Maladaptive use - Answer A person becomes blind after seeing their
spouse flirt with other people.
Denial - Answer involves escaping unpleasant, anxiety-causing thoughts, feelings,
wishes, or needs by ignoring their existence.
Denial adaptive use - Answer A person reacts to news of the death of a loved one by
saying, "No, I don't believe you. The doctor said they were fine."
Denial maladaptive use - Answer A person whose spouse died 3 years earlier still keeps
their clothes in the closet and talks about them in the present tense.
Displacement - Answer is the transference of emotions associated with a particular
person, object, or situation to another nonthreatening person, object, or situation.
Displacement adaptive use - Answer A patient criticizes a nurse after their family fails to
visit.
Displacement maladaptive use - Answer A child who is unable to acknowledge fear of
, their father becomes fearful of animals.
Dissociation - Answer is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of
consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment. It may result in a
separation between feeling and thought. Dissociation can also be manifested by
compartmentalizing uncomfortable or unpleasant aspects of oneself.
Dissociation adaptive use - Answer A nursing student is able to mentally separate
themselves from the noisy environment in the gymnasium as they writes their final exam.
Dissociation maladaptive use - Answer As the result of an abusive childhood and the
need to separate from its realities, a patient finds themselves perpetually in a world
where they feel disconnected from reality. They feel like an outside observer to their
thoughts, feelings, and body sensations.
Identification - Answer is attributing to oneself the characteristics of another person or
group, which may be done consciously or unconsciously.
Identification adaptive use - Answer An 8-year-old dresses up like their teacher and puts
together a pretend classroom for their friends.
Identification maladaptive use - Answer A young child thinks a neighbourhood gang
leader with money and drugs is someone to look up to.
Intellectualization - Answer is the process of analyzing events based on remote, cold
facts (i.e., without passion), rather than incorporating feeling into the processing.
Intellectualization adaptive use - Answer Despite the fact that a patient has lost their
farm to a tornado, they analyzes their options and leads their child to safety.
Intellectualization maladaptive use - Answer A patient responds to the death of their
spouse by focusing on the details of day care and operating the household, rather than
processing the grief with their children.
Introjection - Answer is the process by which the outside world is incorporated or
absorbed into a person's view of the self.
Introjection adaptive use - Answer After their wife's death, a patient has transient
complaints of chest pains and difficulty breathing—the symptoms their wife had before
she died.
Introjection maladaptive use - Answer A patient whose parents overcriticized and
belittled them as a child grows up thinking they are no good. They have taken on their
parents' evaluation of them as part of their self-image.
Projection - Answer refers to the unconscious rejection of emotionally unacceptable
features and the transfer of them onto other people, objects, or situations. You can
remember this defence through the childhood retort of "What you say is what you are."
Mechanisms Maladapitve And
Adaptive Study Set Exam
Altruism - Answer dedicating oneself to meeting the needs of others as a means of
diffusing potentially anxious situations.
compensation - Answer used to make up for perceived deficiencies and to cover up
shortcomings related to these deficiencies to protect the conscious mind from
recognizing them.
Compensation: Adaptive Use - Answer A shorter-than-average person becomes
assertively verbal and excels in business.
Altruism: Adaptive Use - Answer A person who is worried that their boss is angry at
them will go out of his way and try to be helpful.
compensation: Maladaptive Use - Answer An individual drinks alcohol when self-esteem
is low to temporarily diffuse discomfort.
Altruism: Maladaptive Use - Answer The use of altruism is always constructive.
Conversion: Adaptive use - Answer A student is unable to take a final examination
because of a terrible headache.
Conversion: Maladaptive use - Answer A person becomes blind after seeing their
spouse flirt with other people.
Denial - Answer involves escaping unpleasant, anxiety-causing thoughts, feelings,
wishes, or needs by ignoring their existence.
Denial adaptive use - Answer A person reacts to news of the death of a loved one by
saying, "No, I don't believe you. The doctor said they were fine."
Denial maladaptive use - Answer A person whose spouse died 3 years earlier still keeps
their clothes in the closet and talks about them in the present tense.
Displacement - Answer is the transference of emotions associated with a particular
person, object, or situation to another nonthreatening person, object, or situation.
Displacement adaptive use - Answer A patient criticizes a nurse after their family fails to
visit.
Displacement maladaptive use - Answer A child who is unable to acknowledge fear of
, their father becomes fearful of animals.
Dissociation - Answer is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of
consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment. It may result in a
separation between feeling and thought. Dissociation can also be manifested by
compartmentalizing uncomfortable or unpleasant aspects of oneself.
Dissociation adaptive use - Answer A nursing student is able to mentally separate
themselves from the noisy environment in the gymnasium as they writes their final exam.
Dissociation maladaptive use - Answer As the result of an abusive childhood and the
need to separate from its realities, a patient finds themselves perpetually in a world
where they feel disconnected from reality. They feel like an outside observer to their
thoughts, feelings, and body sensations.
Identification - Answer is attributing to oneself the characteristics of another person or
group, which may be done consciously or unconsciously.
Identification adaptive use - Answer An 8-year-old dresses up like their teacher and puts
together a pretend classroom for their friends.
Identification maladaptive use - Answer A young child thinks a neighbourhood gang
leader with money and drugs is someone to look up to.
Intellectualization - Answer is the process of analyzing events based on remote, cold
facts (i.e., without passion), rather than incorporating feeling into the processing.
Intellectualization adaptive use - Answer Despite the fact that a patient has lost their
farm to a tornado, they analyzes their options and leads their child to safety.
Intellectualization maladaptive use - Answer A patient responds to the death of their
spouse by focusing on the details of day care and operating the household, rather than
processing the grief with their children.
Introjection - Answer is the process by which the outside world is incorporated or
absorbed into a person's view of the self.
Introjection adaptive use - Answer After their wife's death, a patient has transient
complaints of chest pains and difficulty breathing—the symptoms their wife had before
she died.
Introjection maladaptive use - Answer A patient whose parents overcriticized and
belittled them as a child grows up thinking they are no good. They have taken on their
parents' evaluation of them as part of their self-image.
Projection - Answer refers to the unconscious rejection of emotionally unacceptable
features and the transfer of them onto other people, objects, or situations. You can
remember this defence through the childhood retort of "What you say is what you are."
