What is the primary purpose of the defense mechanisms?

What is the primary purpose of the defense mechanisms?
 
  a) to protect psychic determinism
  b) to promote primary process thinking
  c) to make the unconscious conscious
  d) to ward off awareness of intrapsychic conflict

Question 2

All of the following are important steps in seeking help for mental illness except:
 
  a) recognition
  b) decision  making
  c) availability
  d) cost

Question 3

In research on response modulation and psychopathy, psychopaths won or lost money depending on what playing cards appeared. In this research, the impulsivity of psychopaths was studied by
 
  a) making them wait before deciding to continue the game.
  b) having them estimate the amount of money they had won.
  c) ratings of their verbal statements during the game.
  d) all of the above

Question 4

Which clinician is most likely to address patients' aptitudes and to help them prepare vocationally to return to the community?
 
  a) psychiatrist
  b) clinical psychologist
  c) clinical social worker
  d) counseling psychologist