Defense Mechanisms Flashcards
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Repression
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Anxiety- rousing thoughts,feelings and memories into unconscious
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What is a defense mechanism?
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Ego’s protective method
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Regression
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Cause an anxious person to retreat to a more comfortable, infantile stage of lifetime
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Denial
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Lets anxious person refuse to admit something unpleasant is happening
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Reaction formation
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Reverses an unacceptable impulse, causing the person to express the opposite of the anxiety-provoking unconscious feeling [does OPPOSITE of anticipation ]
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Projection
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Disguises threatening feelings of guilty anxiety by attributing the problems to others
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Rationalization
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Comforting justifications for one’s action
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Displacement
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Shifts an unacceptable impulse toward a more a acceptable or less threatening object or person
