Defense mechanism

Question 1

Repression

Answer 1

Repression is an unctuous mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threating thoughts from becoming conscious
example: Oedipus complex, aggressive thoughts about same sex parent are repressed.

Question 2

Denial

Answer 2

Denial involves blocking external events fro, awareness. If a situation is too much to handle the person refuses to experience it.
example: smoker refuses to belive smoking cause cancer.

Question 3

Projection

Answer 3

Attributing your own unacceptable thoughts, feelings and motives to another person.
example: you hate someone but your super ego tells you is unacceptable to hate someone, that you can “solve” the issue by believing the person hates you.

Question 4

Displacement

Answer 4

Satisfying an impulse (e.g. aggression) with a substitute object.
example: someone who is frustrated with their boss might go home and kick the dog.

Question 5

Regression

Answer 5

This is a movement back in psychological time when one is faced with stress.
example: A child may begin to suck their thumb again or wet the bed when they are under stress.

Question 6

Sublimation

Answer 6

Satisfying an impulse (e.g. aggression) with a substitute object. In a socially acceptable way.
example: Sport is an example of putting our emotions into something contractive.