Ego Defenses

Question 0

▪ A person avoids anxiety by returning to an earlier, more comfortable time in life when needs were met more readily

Answer 0

Regression

Question 1

▪ The person denies the existence of some external reality

▪ The person using it is unaware of doing so

Answer 1

Denial

Question 2

▪The transfer of an emotion from its original object to a substitute object

Answer 2

Displacement

Question 3

▪ Involves displacing feelings, usually feelings perceived as negative onto another individual

Answer 3

Projection

Question 4

▪ A person acts in a way opposite to how he feels because the feelings are unacceptable to him

Answer 4

Reaction Formation

Question 5

▪ Certain feelings or thoughts are forced into the unconscious

Answer 5

Repression

Question 6

▪ Occurs when certain anxiety-producing thoughts or feelings are consciously excluded from consideration

Answer 6

Suppression

Question 7

▪ Involves the unconscious adoption of personality, characteristics, attitudes, values and behaviors of another

Answer 7

Identification

Question 8

▪ The substitution of acceptable reasons from the actual reasons motivating behavior

Answer 8

Rationalization

Question 9

▪ Non-rational mental activity that allows escape from daily pressure and responsibilities

Answer 9

Fantasy

Question 10

▪ A person uses the intellectual powers of thinking, reasoning and analyzing, to blunt or avoid emotional issues that are too threatening

Answer 10

Intellectualization

Question 11

▪ Unconscious use of specific behavior to make up for a real or imagined inability or deficiency, thus maintaining self-esteem

Answer 11

Compensation

Question 12

▪ Unconscious expression of mental conflict as a physical symptom to relieve tension or anxiety

Answer 12

Conversion

Question 13

▪ Separation and detachment of a string, emotionally changed conflict from one’s consciousness

Answer 13

Dissociation

Question 14

▪ Unconscious application of the philosophy ideas, customs and attitudes of another person to one’s self

Answer 14

Introjection

Question 15

▪ Negation of a previous consciously intolerable experience

Answer 15

Restitution

Question 16

▪ Unconscious replacement of unacceptable inquiries, attitudes, needs, or emotions with those that are more acceptable

Answer 16

Substitution

Question 17

▪ Use of external objects to become an outward representation of an internal idea, attitude or feeling

Answer 17

Symbolization