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, such as a murder or an earthquake

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

Project

Answer 3

In projection, the undesirable feeling are attributed to another person or persons

Question 4

Displacement

Answer 4

Object 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 that is diametrically opposed to the impulse or feelings that one is repressing

Question 6

Regression

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Fixation

Answer 7

People with an oral fixation have problems with drinking, smoking, and nail biting when they are experiencing stressful events

Question 8

Identification

Answer 8

Taking on the characteristics of someone else

Question 9

Rationalization

Answer 9

Is an attempt to deny ones true motives by using a reason that is more logical or socially acceptable than ones own reasons

Question 10

Isolation

Answer 10

It involves compartmentalizing ones experience so that an event becomes separated from the feelings that associated with it, allowing it to be a part of your mind

Question 11

Sublimation

Answer 11

Involves rechanneling the entry connected with an sport idk

Question 12

Compensation

Answer 12

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