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Chapter 05: Adjustive Demands

This document provides information about various defense mechanisms and adjustive demands discussed in Chapter 5, including definitions of frustration, regression, rationalization, sublimation, projection, repression, displacement, and denial of reality. It also discusses the three types of conflicts and what characterizes a task-oriented approach. Sample questions ranging from one to five marks are provided about the causes of frustration, explaining specific defense mechanisms like sublimation, rationalization, reaction formation, displacement, repression, and regression.

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Chapter 05: Adjustive Demands

This document provides information about various defense mechanisms and adjustive demands discussed in Chapter 5, including definitions of frustration, regression, rationalization, sublimation, projection, repression, displacement, and denial of reality. It also discusses the three types of conflicts and what characterizes a task-oriented approach. Sample questions ranging from one to five marks are provided about the causes of frustration, explaining specific defense mechanisms like sublimation, rationalization, reaction formation, displacement, repression, and regression.

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Chapter05
AdjustiveDemands

TOTAL HOURS: 10
TOTAL MARKS: 14-18

Approx no of ques on this chapt. (1 mark-1 or 2, 2 marks-1 or 2, 5 marks-2)


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OnemarkandTwomarksquestions
1) Whatisfrustration?

Key: A state produced by the thwarting or blocking of some ongoing goal


directedbehavior.
2) Whatisregression?

Key:Resortingtochildhoodmodesofbehavior.
3) Whatisconflict?
Key: Clash between two needs or goals in which the choice of one causes
frustrationwithregardtotheother.
4) Whatisrationalization?

Key:Givinggoodreasonsforrealreasons.
5) Whatissublimation?

Key:Drainingoffthethwartedenergyintosociallyapprovedchannels.
6) Whatisprojection?

Key:Attributingtoorobservingonesownthoughts,feelings,etcinothers.
7) Whatisrepression?

Key:Threateningorpainfulthoughtsareexcludedfromconsciousness.

8) Whatisdisplacement?

Key: Transferring of emotional reaction from the original object, person or


situationtoanunrelatedpersonorsituationisknownasdisplacement.
9) Whatisdenialofreality?

Key: Screening out the disagreeable reality by ignoring or refusing to


acknowledgeit.
10) Writeanytwohostileactions.

Key:Avoidance,Antilocution,Discrimination,Physicalattack&Extermination.
11) Whatarethethreetypesofconflicts?

Key:

1) ApproachApproachconflicts
2) ApproachAvoidanceconflicts
3) AvoidanceAvoidanceconflicts

12) Whatistaskorientedapproach?
Key: When a person feels competent to handle a stressful situation his
behaviortendstobetaskoriented.

Fivemarksquestions
1) Whatarethecausesoffrustration?Explain

Key:
Causesoffrustrationareofthreetypestheyare
a) Externalobstacles
b) Internalobstacles
c) Socialethicalobstacles

a) Externalobstacles:draughts,floods,accidents,failures,financialproblems,etc.
b) Internal obstacles: low intelligence, disability, low or no education, lack of
adequateskillstohandleasituation,etc.
c) Socialethicalobstacles:Rigidmoralvalues,religion,etc.

2) Explainsublimationdefensemechanism
Key:Duetosocialandethicalconstraints,sexual,aggressiveandotherimpulses
are often denied direct expression. Energy associated with such impulses
producetensionandmaladjustments.Toreducethetensiontheyarechannelized
inasociallyapprovedmanner.
Forex:1)Anaggressivepersonmaybecomeaboxerorasurgeon.
2)Aboywhoisinlovewithagirlmaypenromanticpoemsornovels,etc.
3) ExplainRationalizationdefensemechanism

Key: Rationalization is nothing but defending ones own actions. For


ex:Astudentmaydefendhispoormarksinasubjectbyblamingevaluationor
theteachingmethod.
Rationalizationtwotypes1.Sourgrapeattitudeand2.Sweetlemonattitude.
1) Sour grape attitude: Based on fox and grapes story Ex: A student who is
unsuccessfulintheexams,blamethequestionpaperasoutofsyllabus.

2) Sweetlemonattitude:Whateverhappenedisforthegoodorwhatwehave
isthebest.Ex:Astudentwhohassecuredlowmarksintheexammayboast
that he is the only successful student (pass out) in the class and other
studentsfailed.

4) ExplainReactionformationdefensemechanism:

Key:Itisanunusualmethodofcontrollingundesirableurgesbydenyingtheir
existence.Ex:1)Awickedmanbehaveslikeakindheartedperson2)Aperson
withbadvirtuespreachesmorality,ethics,etc.Aselfdeceptivenaturenot
subjectedtoconsciouscontrol.
Reaction formation has some adjustment values, in helping to maintain
socially approved behavior. If it crosses certain limits, it leads to severe
maladjustments.

5) Explain displacement defense mechanism

Key: The expression of an unwanted feeling or thought is redirected from a


more threatening, powerful person to a weaker one. For Ex: A brother yells at
his younger sister after a teacher gives him a bad grade or marks.
Displacement has some adjustment values because it helps to discharge
emotional tension without risk of retaliation. The person may become
maladjusted when it is used beyond certain limits.
6) What is repression? Explain

Key: Unacceptable or unpleasant impulses are pushed back in to the


unconscious This happens without the awareness of the conscious mind- This
is also known as selective for getting. In the sense one cannot recall it.
Repression helps the individual to control dangerous and unacceptable
desires and at the same time alleviates the anxiety associated with such desires.
7) What is regression? Explain

Key: People behave as if they were at an early stage of development. For


ex: 1) a student who is over whelmed by exams might act in a childish
immature manner to escape his responsibilities.
2) a grown up jealous child reverting to bed wetting, baby talk, thumb
sucking and other infantile behavior to get parental attention, etc.

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