Psychoanalysis & Psychodynamic Psychology
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| 28 ActIvIty 3: AnSwEr KEy situation 1 Mary’s Id wants her to go with Paul all weekend, since she loves Shakespeare and wants to spend time with Paul. Her Superego wants her to study all weekend for her calculus final exam. Her Ego is able to reconcile the Id and Superego by allowing her to study on Saturday and attend the performance on Sunday. situation 2 Tom feels a conflict between his wish to accommodate his friends, his wish for his parents approval, and his moral Superego need to be honest and do the right thing. The best compromise his Ego is able to come up with is to think about finding different friends a person with a stronger Ego might find abetter compromise. ADAPtED From This activity was developed by teachers and the National Science Foundation Summer Institute at Texas AM University, College Station, TX, 1992, under the leadership of Dr. Ludy Benjamin. activity 3 continued from previous page 29 InStructIonS Match the statements below with the following defense mechanisms. A. Repression B. Regression C. Reaction Formation D. Rationalization E. Displacement F. Projection G. Denial 1. Sam’s girlfriend just broke up with him over the phone, making him very angry. Sam reacts by yelling at his dog 2. Julie has just failed her psychology class. She tells her friend, I only failed because this is an impossibly difficult class 3. John’s wife asks him to stop on his way home and pickup some grocery items, including a pound of liver. John hates liver, so he puts it last on his list. After picking up the several items, John comes home and his wife asks for the liver. John then realizes he forgot to buy liver 4. David was recently told by his doctor that he has an incurable from of cancer. David believes the doctor read the wrong X-ray. _____ 5. Mary walks into work in a very grumpy mood. The first person she meets is Jan, who looks up and says, Hi Mary replies, Boy, you are in a lousy mood this morning _____ 6. Sarah has just had a child she really did not want to have. She feels guilty about this and reacts by being overprotective of the child 7. Larry, a 50-year-old successful business executive, still calls his mother for consolation when things go wrong in order to feel better. Download 283.67 Kb. Share with your friends:
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