Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

Denial

Answer 1

Arguing against anxiety-provoking stimuli by stating it does not exist

Question 2

Displacement

Answer 2

Taking out impulses on a less threatening target

Question 3

Intellectualization

Answer 3

Avoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects (focusing on details of funeral rather than sadness and grief)

Question 4

Projection

Answer 4

Placing unacceptable impulses in yourself onto someone else

Question 5

Rationalization

Answer 5

Supplying a logical or rational reason as opposed to the real reason

Question 6

Reaction formation

Answer 6

Taking the opposite belief because the true belief causes anxiety

Question 7

Regression

Answer 7

Returning to a previous stage of development

Question 8

Repression

Answer 8

Pulling into unconscious (forgetting sexual abuse from childhood)

Question 9

Sublimination

Answer 9

Acting out unacceptable impulses in a socially acceptable way

Question 10

Suppression

Answer 10

Pushing into the unconscious (trying to forget something)