Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

Satisfying impulse with substitute object

Aggression

Answer 1

Displacement

Question 2

Movement back in psychological time when one is faced with stress

Answer 2

Regression

Question 3

Pushing back memories or thoughts to keep disturbing things out of conscious

Answer 3

Repression

Question 4

Ego transforms unacceptable motive or feeling into opposite

Girl hits you cause she likes you

Answer 4

Reaction formation

Question 5

Blocking external events from awareness. Refuses to experience

Answer 5

Denial

Question 6

Satisfying impulse with substitute object in socially acceptable way

(Football for aggression)

Answer 6

Sublimation

Question 7

Individuals attributing their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings and motives to another person

(you hate someone but you know it’s morally wrong to hate them so you convince yourself they hate you)

Answer 7

Projection

Question 8

Ego justifies unacceptable motive by giving false acceptable reason

(Hit someone and say oh but they hit me first)

Answer 8

Rationalization (intellectualization)