Defense Mechanisms

Question 0

Repression

Answer 0

Painful feelings are remembered and then forgotten

Question 1

Denial

Answer 1

Unpleasant reality is ignored and replaced by harmless lie; denying an event

Question 2

Suppression

Answer 2

Unpleasant feelings are suppressed through a conscious effort to ignore them

Question 3

Projection

Answer 3

Undesirable feelings are attributed to another person or persons

Question 4

Displacement

Answer 4

Taking out feelings or frustration on others

Question 5

Reaction formation

Answer 5

Taking up he opposite feeling to repress another

Question 6

Regression

Answer 6

When confronted with stress, people use behaviors used in earlier development to deal with stress

Question 7

Fixation

Answer 7

Doing something when stressed; smoking, drinking, nail biting, etc.

Question 8

Identification

Answer 8

Taking on the characteristics of someone else

Question 9

Rationalization

Answer 9

Is an attempt to deny one’s true motives and hide feelings

Question 10

Isolation

Answer 10

Isolating feelings to be felt at a later time

Question 11

Sublimation

Answer 11

Rechaneling energy connected with an unexceptional impulse into one that is more socially exceptable

Question 12

Compensation

Answer 12

Devoting unusual efforts to achievement in order to overcome feelings of inferiority