AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Anna Freud defined defense mechanisms as “unconscious resources used by the ego” to decrease internal stress ultimately. Patients often devise these unconscious mechanisms to decrease conflict within themselves, specifically between the superego and id.

Detailed explanation-2: -Defense mechanisms operate at an unconscious level and help ward off unpleasant feelings (i.e., anxiety) or make good things feel better for the individual. Ego-defense mechanisms are natural and normal.

Detailed explanation-3: -Unconsciousness-or automatism-can be a defense. Some courts have found that unconsciousness (sometimes called automatism) prevents a defendant from acting with a guilty mind. Others have determined that it means a defendant couldn’t have committed a guilty act-because there’s been no voluntary movement of the body.

Detailed explanation-4: -Denial is one of the most common defense mechanisms. It occurs when you refuse to accept reality or facts. People in denial may block external events or circumstances from the mind so that they don’t have to deal with the emotional impact. In other words, they avoid painful feelings or events.

Detailed explanation-5: -Some of the major defense mechanisms described by psychoanalysts are the following: 1. Repression is the withdrawal from consciousness of an unwanted idea, affect, or desire by pushing it down, or repressing it, into the unconscious part of the mind.