After analyzing behavior, the nurse determines that a client is ...

[arivle123]

After analyzing behavior, the nurse determines that a client is demonstrating defense mechanisms. According to Freud, what should the nurse realize as being the cause of this behavior?
 
  1. Anxiety created by conflicts
  2. Activation of the conscience
  3. Conflict between the id's impulses
  4. Immediate pleasure and gratification
  5. Underlying motivation for development

Question 2

The nurse is preparing a teaching session for a group of parents with newborn children. What should the nurse include about Bowlby's attachment theory during this presentation?
 
  1. Use the attachment figure as security
  2. Desire to be near the attachment figure
  3. Plan to separate from the attachment figure
  4. Return to the attachment figure when threatened
  5. Express anxiety when the attachment figure is absent

[chevyboi1976]

Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 1, 3

Rationale 1: Defense mechanisms or adaptive mechanisms are the result of anxiety created by the conflicts due to social and environmental restrictions.

Rationale 2: Activation of the conscience is a function of the superego.

Rationale 3: Defense mechanisms or adaptive mechanisms are the result of conflicts between the id's impulses.

Rationale 4: Immediate pleasure and gratification is a function of the id.

Rationale 5: The underlying motivation for development is the libido.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 1, 2, 4, 5

Rationale: Bowlby believed that attachment served as a protective or survival mechanism for the infant. Characteristics of Bowlby's attachment theory include using the attachment figure as a security base.

[arivle123]

TYSM

[strudel15]

Excellent