Defense Mechanisms

Question 0

Forgetting the details of a really bad event

Answer 0

Repression

Question 1

Unpleasant reality is ignored, and a realistic interpretation of a potentially threatening events are replaced by benign but inaccurate ones

Answer 1

Denial

Question 2

Fears can be replaced by thinking Of a happy time,place, or event

Answer 2

Suppression

Question 3

An angry believes others are angry at him/her

Answer 3

Projection

Question 4

Involves taking out our frustrations, feelings and impulses on people or objects that are less threatening

Answer 4

Displacement

Question 5

Someone you strongly dislike in a excessively friendly manner in order to hide your true feelings

Answer 5

Reaction formation

Question 6

When confronted by stressful events they sometimes abandon coping strategies and revert to using things they used to do when they were younger

Answer 6

Regression

Question 7

People with an oral fixation have problems with drinking,smoking, nail biting when they are experiencing stressful events

Answer 7

Fixation

Question 8

Taking on characteristics of someone important

Answer 8

Identification

Question 9

If a person says I don’t care I wasn’t chosen for the team ; I didn’t want to play anyway

Answer 9

Rationalization

Question 10

Reading about the grieving process after a parents death

Answer 10

Isolation

Question 11

Channeling aggressive tendencies into playing contact sports

Answer 11

Sublimation

Question 12

A young person becomes physically disabled and compensates by working academically and becomes a doctor

Answer 12

Compensation