Ego Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

Attributing inner feelings to others

Answer 1

Projection

Question 2

Saying it is not so

Answer 2

Denial

Question 3

The world composed of polar opposites

Answer 3

Splitting

Question 4

Transient inability to remember

Answer 4

Blocking

Question 5

Returning to an earlier stage of development

Answer 5

Regression

Question 6

Physical symptoms for psychological reasons

Answer 6

Somatization

Question 7

The outside becomes the inside

Answer 7

Introjection

Question 8

Source stays that same, but target changes

Answer 8

Displacement

Question 9

Forgetting so it is nonretrievable

Answer 9

Repression

Question 10

Facts without feelings

Answer 10

Isolation of affect

Question 11

Affect replaced by academic content

Answer 11

Intellectualization

Question 12

Affect covered up by excessive action or sensation

Answer 12

Acting out

Question 13

Why the unacceptable is okay in this instance

Answer 13

Rationalization

Question 14

The unacceptable transformed into its opposite

Answer 14

Reaction formation

Question 15

Action to symbolically reverse the unacceptable

Answer 15

Undoing

Question 16

Passive nonperformance after promise

Answer 16

Passive-aggressive

Question 17

Separating self from one’s own experience

Answer 17

Dissociation

Question 18

A pleasant release from anxiety

Answer 18

Humor

Question 19

Moving an unacceptable impulse into an acceptable channel

Answer 19

Sublimation

Question 20

Forgetting, but is retrievable

Answer 20

Suppression