Urges or impulses for repetitive intentional behavior performed in a stereotyped manner in an attempt to relieve anxiety is termed
A) Adaptation
B) Congruence
C) Compulsion
D) Obsession
E) Transference
Answer and Discussion
The answer is C. [Compulsion]
Obsessions are persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced at some time during the disturbance as intrusive and unwanted and that in most individuals cause marked anxiety or distress.
The person tries to suppress such thoughts, urges, or images or to neutralize them with some other thoughts or action (e.g., compulsion). In many cases, these obsessions have a theme that an insignificant oversight will result in tremendous catastrophe. Other common themes are contamination, a need for ordering things, aggressive impulses, and sexual imagery.
Compulsions are (1) repetitive behaviors or mental acts (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be rigidly applied and (2) the behaviors or mental acts that are aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or distress or preventing some dreaded situation (even though they are not connected in any realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent, or are clearly excessive).
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