Defence Mechanisms

Question 0

Repression

Answer 0

Painful feeling are conscious initially and then forgotten, but return occasionally. Repression can range from momentary memory lapses to forgetting the details of a catastrophic event

Question 1

Denial

Answer 1

Unpleasant reality is ignored, and a realistic interpretation of potentially threatening events are replaced by benign but inaccurate ones.

Question 2

Suppression

Answer 2

Unpleasant feelings are suppressed through a conscious effort to ignore them

Question 3

Projection

Answer 3

In projection, the undesirable feelings are attributed to another person

Question 4

Displacement

Answer 4

Objects displacement, anger or another emotion is initially felt toward a person against whom it is unsafe to express it

Question 5

Reaction formation

Answer 5

Involves behavior

Question 6

Regression

Answer 6

When confronted by stressful events, people sometimes abandon coping strategies and revert to patterns of behavior used in early development

Question 7

Fixation

Answer 7

People with a oral fixation have problems with drinking, smoking, and nail biting when faced with stress

Question 8

Identification

Answer 8

Taking on the characteristics of someone else

Question 9

Rationalizing

Answer 9

Is an attempt to deny ones true motives by using a reason that is more logical

Question 10

Isolation

Answer 10

It involves compartmentalizing ones experience so that an event becomes separated from the feelings

Question 11

Sublimation

Answer 11

Involves rechanneling the energy connected to an impulse

Question 12

Compensation

Answer 12

Devoting unusual efforts to achievement in order to overcome feelings of inferiority