Defense Mechs Flashcards
What is it called where you give an emotion you are feeling to someone else?
Projection
What is repression?
Subconscious forgetting the event
What is conscious forgetting of an event?
Suppression
People with paranoid personality disorder exhibit what defense mechanism?
Projection
What is a child’s defense mechanism?
Regression
What is it called when you do something that you/society doesn’t like, so you go in a drastically different direction?
Reaction formation
Temper tantrums in children and adults with cognitive delay do this?
Acting out
Person that likes to push people around and fight becomes a cop or MMA fighter, what is this an example of?
Sublimation
What is it called where you feel the emotion someone else is feeling?
Introjection
What is it called when you do something you shouldn’t, but find a socially acceptable way to still do it?
Sublimation
