Defense Mechanism Questions Mental Health

Defense Mechanism Questions Mental Health 1. An unconscious psychological mechanism that reduces anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli is called as?
a. Homeostasis
b. Defence mechanism
c. Ego centralism
d. Intrinsic mechanism2. Which theory explained well about Defence mechanism?
a. Psychosexual theory
b. Psychoanalytic theory
c. Psychosocial theory
d. Cognitive development theory3. The first definitive book on defence mechanisms, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), was written by?
a. Sigmund Freud
b. Anna Freud
c. Otto F Kernberg
d. George Eman4. According to Psychoanalytic theory, Defence mechanisms are considered to be?
a. Normal
b. Pathological
c. Immature
d. Abnormal5. Who introduced a four-level classification of defence mechanisms?
a. Sigmund Freud
b. Anna Freud
c. George Eman Vaillant
d. Robert Plutchik6. Level 1 of Vaillant’s categorization of Defence mechanism include which type of defenses?
a. Pathological defenses
b. Immature defenses
c. Neurotic defenses
d. Mature defenses7. Defence mechanisms like fantasy, projection, passive aggression and acting out are categorized under which level of Vaillant’s Categorization?
a. I
b. II
c. III
d. IV8. Neurotic defenses are categorized under which level of Vaillant’s’ categorization of defence mechanisms?
a. I
b. II
c. III
d. IV9. Which defenses are categorized in level IV category of Vaillant’s’ categories of Defence mechanics?
a. Pathological defences
b. Immature defences
c. Neurotic defences
d. Mature defences10. Immature defences are often seen in which psychiatric diseases?
a. Major depression
b. Personality disorders
c. Sexual disorders
d. Both in major depression and Personality disorders11.A gross reshaping of external reality to meet internal needs is which type of pathological defence mechanism?
a. Delusional Projection
b. Denial
c. Distortion
d. All the above12. Best-known defence mechanisms, used often to describe situations in which people seem unable to face reality or admit an obvious truth is?
a. Regression
b. Denial
c. Displacement
d. Projection13. An immature Defence mechanism in which Direct expression of an unconscious wish or impulse in action, without conscious awareness of the emotion that drives the expressive behaviour is called?
a. Projection
b. Acting out
c. Passive aggressive behaviour
d. Schizoid fantasy14. An excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness is termed as?
a. Projection
b. Acting out
c. Hypochondriasis
d. Schizoid fantasy15. Name a defense mechanism in which the ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves by attributing them to others?
a. Denial
b. Projection
c. Repression
d. SublimationDefense Mechansim
16. Mr. A hates Ms. B, but his superego tells him that such hatred is unacceptable. He ‘solved’ the problem by believing that Ms. B hates him. What Defence mechanism did Mr. A show?
a. Regression
b. Projection
c. Rationalization
d. Displacement17. Defence mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses to a more acceptable or less threatening target is?
a. Dissociation
b. Displacement
c. Reaction formation
d. Rationalization