Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

Rationalization

Answer 1

Reasons justify an action or opinion. Helps people cope by blaming external circumstances.

Question 2

Repression

Answer 2

Refusing to let unacceptable impulses into conscious awareness. Pushing something down and it pops up elsewhere

Question 3

Denial

Answer 3

Distorts or refuses to accept reality. Repression is forgetting something happened and denial is acting like it didn’t.

Question 4

Projection

Answer 4

Places unacceptable feelings from self to another.

Question 5

Displacement

Answer 5

Affect transferred from one person to another. Or one object to another. Husband is mad at wife but yells at kids.

Question 6

Projective identification

Answer 6

When the person who has been projected onto believes the projection

Question 7

Intellectualization

Answer 7

Content is separated from repressed affect

Question 8

Asceticism

Answer 8

Rigor and self denial. Example: refusing to eat or sleep until reaching a deadline

Question 9

Sublimation

Answer 9

Displace an unacceptable instinct for a socially acceptable behavior

Question 10

Introjection/internalization

Answer 10

Internalizing concepts, opinions, perspectives

In psychology, introjection (also known as identification or internalization) is the unconscious adoption of the thoughts or personality traits of others. It occurs as a normal part of development, such as a child taking on parental values and attitudes.

Question 11

Identification

Answer 11

Qualities of external object absorbed into personality. Introjection can lead to identification.

Question 12

Reaction formation

Answer 12

Unacceptable impulse is expressed as its opposite

Question 13

Undoing

Answer 13

Avoid being punished for undesirable thoughts or actions. Undo a threatening thought or feeling or behavior by engaging in a contrary behavior