Defense mechanisms

Question 1

Avoidance

Answer 1

-avoiding people or stressors

Question 2

-focus on strengths than our weaknesses

Answer 2

compensation

Question 3

conversion

Answer 3

development of physical symptoms due to stress without an underlying cause

Question 4

-refuse to accept reality

Answer 4

denial

Question 5

transfer feelings from one target to another

Answer 5

displacement

Question 6

-disconnects from reality

Answer 6

disassociation

Question 7

-adopts beliefs/behavior of another person

Answer 7

identification

Question 8

intellectualization

Answer 8

avoiding emotions associated with a situation so they focus on facts and logic

Question 9

Projection

Answer 9

attribute owns thoughts onto someone else

Question 10

-attempt to justify actions

Answer 10

rationalization

Question 11

reaction formation

Answer 11

individual expresses opposite feels of what is being felt

Question 12

regression

Answer 12

person reverts to an earlier developmental level in response to stressor
ex acting like a baby when they are of age

Question 13

repression

Answer 13

-involuntary blocking of unpleasant feelings

Question 14

-individual fails to recognize positive and negative attributes of an individual

Answer 14

splitting

Question 15

sublimation

Answer 15

-takes unacceptable impulses and transforms them into socially acceptable behavior

Question 16

-conscious blocking of unpleasant feeling

Answer 16

suppression

Question 17

undoing

Answer 17

-someone trie to cancel out unacceptable behavior by trying to reverse
-person switches up on you