Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

repression:

Answer 1

basis for all other defense mechanisms. Pushes anxiety- producing thoughts, feeling, and memories into the unconscious mind

Question 2

undoing:

Answer 2

unconsciously neutralizing an anxiety- causing action by doing a second action that undoes the first

Question 3

regression:

Answer 3

retreating to an earlier psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated.

Question 4

reaction formation:

Answer 4

switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites.

Question 5

projection:

Answer 5

disguising one’s own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.

Question 6

rationalization:

Answer 6

offering self-justiying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconcsious reasons for one’s actions.

Question 7

displacement:

Answer 7

taking out an emotion on a safe or more accessible target than original source

Question 8

sublimation:

Answer 8

transferring of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motives

Question 9

denial:

Answer 9

refusing to believe or even precieve painful realities.