Socio. Psych Flashcards
Psychology
the scientific study of the human mind, mental states, and human behaviour.
Defense Mechnanism: Transference
Transference is a phenomenon characterized by unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another.
Defense Mechnanism: Sublimination
sublimation is a mature type of defense mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are unconsciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior, possibly resulting in a long-term conversion of the initial impulse.
Defense Mechnanism: Repression
Psychological repression, or simply repression, is the psychological attempt made by an individual to repel one’s own desires and impulses toward pleasurable instincts by excluding the desire from one’s consciousness and holding or subduing it in the unconscious.