Defence Mechanisms

Question 1

Regression

Answer 1

Revert to early behaviours in stressful events due to fixation at earlier stage, recapture childhood relating

Question 2

Denial

Answer 2

Refuse to accept reality to decrease anxiety.

Question 3

Repression

Answer 3

Stops anxiety, information out of conscious awareness. When it is conscious = suppression.

Question 4

Projection

Answer 4

Assign undesirable feelings about oneself onto others.

Question 5

Introjection

Answer 5

Internalising characteristics of person/object into oneself unconsciously

Question 6

Reaction formation

Answer 6

Inhibiting anxiety by taking up and exaggerating the opposite feeling/behaviour/impulse.

Question 7

Undoing

Answer 7

A ritualistic act of undo unacceptable act/thought with anxiety.

Question 8

Sublimation

Answer 8

Acting out unacceptable impulses in more socially acceptable ways.

Question 9

Turning against self

Answer 9

Turn aggressive feelings about person/self onto self.

Question 10

Rationalisation

Answer 10

Logical reasons to explain unacceptable behaviour to decrease anxiety and protect self esteem, self concept.

Question 11

Intellectualisation

Answer 11

Decrease anxiety separates emotional and factual information

Question 12

Displacement

Answer 12

Taking out frustrations in less threatening objects.

Question 13

Defence mechanisms in adolescence

Answer 13

Physical changes and increase sex drive = imbalance in id and ego. Conflict between independance + dependance/ adult vs. child.

Question 14

Defence mechanism

Answer 14

Developed by ego to decrease anxiety, important for personality development.