Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

What are defense mechanisms?n

Answer 1

unconscious self-protective process that seeks to shield the ego from intense feelings or affect and impulses.

Operate at a subconscious level so people are not aware of what they are doing.

Question 2

Displacement

Answer 2

Redirection of negative urges or feelings from an original object to a safer or neutral substitute.

Question 3

Denial

Answer 3

Refusal to admit to a painful reality, which is treated as if it does not exist.

Question 4

Inetellectualization

Answer 4

Use of excessive reasoning rather than reacting or changing.

Question 5

Introjection

Answer 5

Engulfment or incorporation of specific traits, behaviors or qualities into self or ego structure.

Question 6

Projection

Answer 6

Blame of other’s or things for one’s owns feelings or thoughts.

Question 7

Rationalization

Answer 7

An effort to replace or justify acceptable reasons for feelings, beliefs, thoughts, or behaviors for real ones.

Question 8

Reaction formation

Answer 8

Repression of painful or offensive attitudes or traits with unconscious opposite ones.

Question 9

Sublimation

Answer 9

Normal form of dealing iwth undersirable feelings or thoughts by keeping them in an acceptable context.

Question 10

Suppression

Answer 10

Conscious and deliberate forgetfullness or painful or undesirable thoughts and ideas.

Question 11

Regression

Answer 11

Retreat to an earlier development statge.

Question 12

Repression

Answer 12

Unconscious, purposeful forgetting of painful or dangerous thoughts (the most basic defense mechanism)