Multiple-Choice Questions or Objective Type Questions on Defense Mechanisms [PDF Included]

Hello readers! In this article, I am going to display some important Multiple-Choice Questions or Objective Type Questions on Defense Mechanisms. I have given examples of each type of Defense Mechanism. I hope that these examples will clear your concept on the Defense Mechanisms.

Let us start the MCQ Questions on Defense Mechanisms:

Multiple-Choice Questions or Objective Type Questions on Defense  Mechanisms [PDF Included]

• After getting up from bed, daily in the morning, Nilesh sees her face first in the mirror. He keeps the mirror on the bed so that he has not seen others’ faces first. Which type of defense mechanism it is?

1. Altruism
2. Acting Out
3. Autistic Fantasy
4. None of these

Ans: (2)

• For the shake of society’s goodness, Nitesh gives alms to the beggars. Nitesh used to say to his friends that they also should give alms to the beggars. Which type of defense mechanism is these type of activities?

1. Altruism
2. Acting Out
3. Autistic Fantasy
4. None of these

Ans: (1)

• Whenever Nitesh feels stressed due to a lot of reasons, Ritesh starts thinking that he is roaming on the beach with his partner. In this way, he can reduce the stress and can feel relaxed. What type of defense mechanism does he follow?

1. Altruism
2. Acting Out
3. Autistic Fantasy
4. None of these

Ans: (3)

• Nitesh always feels proud of his son and says to his neighbors that his son is excellent at school though he is a naughty child at home. What type of defense mechanism is it?

1. Compartmentalization
2. Compensation
3. Conversion
4. Counter phobic

Ans: (1)

• Hellen Keller couldn’t see, hear and talk. But her other sense organs are very active. Which type of defense mechanism was opted by her body?

1. Compartmentalization
2. Compensation
3. Conversion
4. Counter phobic

Ans: (2)

• Nila had never stayed alone in her house when she was with her parents. She is afraid of staying alone at her house. But after marriage, she becomes habituated to this as her husband is staying in a different state. Which type of defense mechanism has been built up within her?

1. Compartmentalization
2. Compensation
3. Conversion
4. Counter phobic

Ans: (4)

• There was an English class going on. Total 60 numbers of students were there. The teacher instructed Rajiv to correct the spelling of the word written by him on the board. Rajiv stood up. The teacher was telling him not to get fear of doing this. Rajiv replied that he was not getting fear, but the hair in his hand was erected. The teacher said him not to take tension. The teacher asked someone else. Rajiv knew the correct spelling. But his hands were shivering. What defense mechanism, did he opt unknowingly?

1. Compartmentalization
2. Compensation
3. Conversion
4. Counter phobic

Ans: (3)

• Shivam got the result and came to know that he failed the examination. Immediately, he assumed that the result was wrong because his teacher had done a mistake in adding the numbers. Which type of defense mechanism he had opted to keep himself fine?

1. Displacement
2. Denial
3. Dissociation
4. Emotional insulation

Ans: (2)

• When my boss gives me a lot of pressure and I can’t complete it, he shouts at me. I got angry. But I can’t shout at him. Instead, after returning to my house, I shout at my daughter. Which type of defense mechanism I have opted for here?

1. Displacement
2. Denial
3. Dissociation
4. Emotional insulation

Ans: (1)

• Arun thinks that he is the Prime Minister. Sometimes he behaves exactly like our Prime Minister. This type of defense mechanism is

1. Displacement
2. Denial
3. Dissociation
4. Emotional insulation

Ans: (3)

• Due to which type of defense mechanism, people forget the pain that gave them sufferings during the death of their dear ones?

1. Displacement
2. Denial
3. Dissociation
4. Emotional insulation

Ans: (4)

• Which of the following defense mechanism acts as a stress reducer?

1. Idealization
2. Identification
3. Intellectualization
4. Humor

Ans: (4)

• Reena was about to cry while watching the blood coming out of a father as his son hit him. But she did not cry thinking that it was not real. Which type of defense mechanism she had followed to avoid crying?

1. Idealization
2. Identification
3. Intellectualization
4. Humor

Ans: (3)

• I always praise them in front of her saying that she is very beautiful. Though I know that she is good-looking but not very beautiful, still I praise her because she becomes happy. What type of defense mechanism, I have followed here?

1. Idealization
2. Identification
3. Intellectualization
4. Humor

Ans: (1)

• Rohit’s father was very strict in the classroom and there was a pin-drop silence when he used to teach his students. Rohit thinks that he also teaches as his father did. But in reality, it was not so. What type of defense mechanism do Rohit follow?

1. Idealization
2. Identification
3. Intellectualization
4. Humor

Ans: (2)

• Rohit had seen how his father behaves with his mother in his childhood. His father always shouted at his mother without any reason. Rohit also did the same thing and feels that he is doing right. What type of defense mechanism is the following?

1. Projection
2. Isolation
3. Rationalization
4. Introjections

Ans: (4)

• A few years back when my sister passed away, I suffered a lot. But now I can tell you how my sister passed away. I don’t feel sad about this fact at present. What type of defense mechanism I am following unknowingly?

1. Projection
2. Isolation
3. Rationalization
4. Introjections

Ans: (2)

• Which type of defense mechanism we, the common people have- we do the mistakes and blame others.

1. Projection
2. Isolation
3. Rationalization
4. Introjections

Ans: (1)

• While giving the examination, Nilesh wrote the answer taking the help of google. The teacher gave him punishment. But Nilesh told his friends that the message passed to his friends about his punishment was wrong. What type of defense mechanism did Nilesh follow here?

1. Projection
2. Isolation
3. Rationalization
4. Introjections

Ans: (3)

• Nila’s husband never gives her time to pass with him. He does not give importance to her feelings. But recently Nila has got a good friend. The friend is her husband’s friend too. What type of defense mechanism does Nila follow?

1. Reaction formation
2. Regression
3. Resistance
4. Repression

Ans: (1)

• Which type of defense mechanism is the following fact?

“Going back to childhood and crying like a child.”

1. Reaction formation
2. Regression
3. Resistance
4. Repression

Ans: (2)

• When we watch some motivational videos, we become silent and try to retrieve it. What type of defense mechanism it is?

1. Reaction formation
2. Regression
3. Resistance
4. Repression

Ans: (3)

• Nila forgot the mental torture faced in childhood after receiving so much anxiety at present. Which type of defense mechanism is she following unknowingly?

1. Reaction formation
2. Regression
3. Retroflection
4. Repression

Ans: (4)

• Scolding themselves or punishing themselves is an example of

1. Splitting
2. Somatization
3. Retroflection
4. Sublimation

Ans: (3)

• The tendency to experience and communicate psychological distress is an example of

1. Splitting
2. Somatization
3. Retroflection
4. Sublimation

Ans: (2)

• Not being able to integrate the good and bad things the good and bad sides of self and others is the example of:

1. Splitting
2. Sublimation
3. Suppression
4. Undoing

Ans: (1)

• Tina’s mother scolded her for not attending the classes properly. As a result, she became angry with her mother. Then she did 50 numerical problems of Mathematics. What type of defense mechanism is it?

1. Splitting
2. Sublimation
3. Suppression
4. Undoing

Ans: (2). Here, Tina converted her anger energy into some productive work.

• Ratna is shouting at her neighbor Rakhi. Rakhi turned on the music loudly and did not listen to anything. Which type of defense mechanism can be treated as an example?

1. Splitting
2. Sublimation
3. Suppression
4. Undoing

Ans: (3)

• Nila shouted at her boss. After some time, she realized that she should not shout at her boss. So, she felt sorry for her boss and requested her to forgive her. What type of defense mechanism is it?

1. Withdrawl
2. Sublimation
3. Suppression
4. Undoing

Ans: (4)

• Tintin was a little boy. He had broken his father’s mobile. Then, his father scolded Tintin and shouted at him. Tintin became tensed. After some time of this incident, Tintin slept. What type of defense mechanism does the little one follow here unknowingly?

1. Splitting
2. Withdrawl
3. Suppression
4. Undoing

Ans: (2)

• People use defense mechanisms because it helps

1. To reduce tension and energy
2. To maintain repression
3. To protect ego
4. All of the above

Ans: (4)

• Why repression is important to us?

1. It removes the discomforts
2. It reduces anxiety and the concerned guilts.
3. Both (1) and (2)
4. None of the above

Ans: (3)

• How will you remember these 30 numbers of defense mechanisms?

Ans: Some defense mechanisms you can easily remember because the name itself gives the answer. As for example: undoing, suppression,denial,withdrawal,altruism,humor,etc. Here, I will mention the keywords on some important defense mechanisms that you must remember. Questions may come indicating to match.

Sl No	Name of the Defense Mechanism	Keywords to remember
1.	Autistic fantasy	Dealing with the emotional conflict by daydreaming.
2.	Altruism	doing good for others for self-benefit.
3.	Compartmentalization	Divide and conquer.
4.	Conversion	Exam phobia
5.	Denial	Refusing to face.
6.	Dissociation	May feel depersonalized.
7.	Displacement	Discharging impulses on a less threatening.
8.	Emotional insulation	Reducing ego involved.
9.	Humor	Ironic aspects.
10.	Introjection	Incorporation of others’ characteristics.
11.	Isolation	Separate the emotion from the memory.
12.	Idealization	Overestimation of the desirable qualities
13.	Projection	My desire put on others’ shoulders.
14.	Repression	Unconscious exclusion of painful thought.
15.	Retroflection	Self-torture
16.	Splitting	Isolating the unpleasant thought from a normal emotional response.
17.	Sublimation	Releasing the aggressive impulses by a productive action.
18.	Suppression	Trying to forget/ suppress the uncomfortable thoughts.
19.	Undoing	Asking apology/ forgiveness.
20.	Withdrawl	Removing yourself from others.

Conclusion

Defense mechanisms are built within us unknowingly. It protects us. It removes our discomfort. For these defense mechanisms only we forget the pain and we survive. So, defense mechanisms play an important role in our lives.

I hope this article-‘Multiple-Choice Questions or Objective Type Questions on Defense  Mechanisms’ will help you in your semester examinations. Best wishes!